Art Quote by Balthus Download Open image “I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.” — Balthus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art People Refuse Writing
If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know. — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it. — Vanessa Paradis Copy Share Image
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I… — Balthus Copy Share Image
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at… — Balthus Copy Share Image
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. — Balthus Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look… — Balthus Copy Share Image
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. — Balthus Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look… — Balthus Copy Share Image
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus Copy Share Image
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. — Balthus Copy Share Image
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. — Balthus Copy Share Image
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch… — Balthus Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
