Balthus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
-- Balthus

#Painting #Language #Paint
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
-- Balthus

#Order #Emotion #Chaos
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

#Art #Desire #Ordinary
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
-- Balthus

#Art #Painting #Pleasure
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
-- Balthus

#Eye #Drawing #Sketching
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle...
-- Balthus

#Struggle #Self #Criticism
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

#Looks #Crafts #Painting
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

#Thinking #Order #People
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
-- Balthus

#Art #Writing #People
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
-- Balthus

#Painting #Kind #Worst
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.
-- Balthus

#Looks #Way #Painting

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