Balthus Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Balthus
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“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 mystery in my paintings.”
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“I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.”
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“I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.”
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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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“One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.”
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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 paint, really.”
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“Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.”
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“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.”
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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, criticism, struggle.”
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“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 his paintings.”
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