"Painting is the passage from the chaos of……" — Balthus

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the… - Balthus

"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."

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12 Quotes by Balthus

Balthus has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has…
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism,…
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I…
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave…
I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more…
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let…
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness,…

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More Chaos Quotes

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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not… — Margaret Atwood
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. — Henry Adams
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. — Theodor Adorno
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be… — Robert Bork
I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. — Christina Aguilera
I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom… — Christina Aguilera

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