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.
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.
- 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.
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.
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'.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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