If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.
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
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…
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.
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.
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
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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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