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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

~Balthus

Topics: About Art Confide Like People Refuse Write

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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

Topics: Always Desire Extraordinary Feel Impose Leave Look Mystery Ordinary Ordinary Things Paintings Slight Suggest Things Touch

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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

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Topics: Also Anguish Endless Great Painting Pleasure Source

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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

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Topics: Also Consciousness Criticism Experience Feel Great Liberation Like Painting Self-Examination Struggle Translating Work I Feel

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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

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Topics: Always Cannot Draw Eyes Must Pencil

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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

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Topics: Chaos Emotions Order Painting Passage Possible

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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

~Balthus

Topics: Always Attempt Best Better Even Find Invented Kind Paintings Representation Some Than Will Worst

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

~Balthus

Topics: About Another Cannot Know Language Paint Painting Really Replaced Say Which

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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

Topics: Begin Best Best Way His Known Let Us Look Nothing Now Painter Paintings Say Us Way Whom

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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

Topics: Anyone Century Craft Disappeared Evidence Hardly Left Look Only Painters Painting Possesses Really Virtually Who

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: February 29th, 1908

Died: February 18th, 2001

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