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