I refuse to confide and don’t like it when people write about art.
About Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery.
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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.
French painter
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
French painter
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.
French painter
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
French painter
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
French painter
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really.
French painter
I refuse to confide and don’t like it when people write about art.
French painter
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
French painter
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
French painter
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
French painter