Balthus Quotes

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

  Balthus

  Order, Emotion, Chaos

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• La pintura es un lenguaje que no se puede sustituir por otro. No sé qué decir de lo que pinto, la verdad.

  Balthus

  Arte, Pintura, Lengua

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• Siempre siento el deseo de buscar lo extraordinario en las cosas ordinarias; de sugerir, no imponer, de dejar siempre un ligero toque de misterio en mis cuadros.

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  Art, Desire, Ordinary

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

  Balthus

  Art, Painting, Pleasure

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• Siempre hay que dibujar, dibujar con los ojos, cuando no se puede dibujar con un lápiz.

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  Eye, Drawing, Sketching

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• If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

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  Kitsch, Speak, Ifs

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

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  Arte, Escritura, Personas

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• Sólo había planeado golpear el gong con violencia para sacudir a la gente y concienciarla. Creo que lo he conseguido.

  Balthus

  Pensamiento, Orden, Gente

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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.

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  Looks, Crafts, Painting

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

  Balthus

  Struggle, Self, Criticism

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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 the paintings'.

  Balthus

  Looks, Way, Painting

  "Balthus: a retrospective exhibition".

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

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  Painting, Kind, Worst

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