"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel,……" — Balthus
"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle..."
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12 Quotes by Balthus
Balthus has 12 quotes on this site.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has…
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I…
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave…
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I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more…
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let…
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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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