Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (Balthus) Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
-
If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
-
I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
-
Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
-
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
-
I will keep painting until I die.
-
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
-
If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
-
If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
-
Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'
-
And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
-
If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
-
Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
-
Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
-
Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
-
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
-
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.
-
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
-
So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.
-
Like the postcard collages, the colors are shapes in a landscape. In this case his collage 'Napoleon at Würtsburg' it is a painting of a landscape, not a photo as in the postcards collages, and therefore a contrast of the traditional painting and a presentation of literal space on top of depicted space.
-
A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
-
You put high heels on and you change.
-
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
-
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.
