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.
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I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.Balthus
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Balthus
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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 painters of this century.
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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.
Balthus
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthus
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