Author: Balthus

Quotes

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

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

- Balthus

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

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

- Balthus

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

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

- Balthus

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

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

- Balthus

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

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

- Balthus

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

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

- Balthus

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