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.
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
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
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 is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. - Balthus
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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 painte… - 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 painte…
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. - Balthus
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch. - Balthus
If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. - Balthus
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. - Balthus
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. - Balthus
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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