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 is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.Balthus
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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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.
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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 his paintings.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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