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Painting Quotes by Balthus
- 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 only to look at the…
- Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle...
- Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
- I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of…
- Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
- The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at…
- Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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