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Balthus

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


— Balthus


#cannot #draw #eyes #must #pencil

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


— Balthus


#anguish #endless #great #painting #pleasure

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


#desire #extraordinary #feel #i #i always

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


— Balthus


#attempt #best #better #even #find

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


#best #best way #his #known #let us

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


#century #craft #disappeared #evidence #hardly

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


— Balthus


#art #confide #i #like #people

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


— Balthus


#another #cannot #i #know #language

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


— Balthus


#emotions #order #painting #passage #possible

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


— Balthus


#consciousness #criticism #experience #feel #great






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Rola. In support of Weber's view Balthus did make dubious claims about his ancestry before once claiming he was descended from Lord Byron on his father's side. BEGIN: BALTHUS IS A PAINTER OF WHOM NOTHING IS KNOWN.

B. ". He insisted that his paintings should be seen and not read about and he resisted any attempts made to build a biographical profile.

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