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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.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
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.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
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.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
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.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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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.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola