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Balthus Inspirational Quotes (10)
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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.
Balthus
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.
Balthus
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Balthus
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 look at the painters of this century.
Balthus
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 the paintings'.
Balthus
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Balthus
If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.
Balthus
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthus