Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (Balthus) Quotes
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Sunlight is painting.
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The politician is...trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
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I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
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I've dabbled in several different religions.
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I like to see the positive. I went to Madrid when I was 18 and did a TV show there. Really, my first job was in Madrid and I was on my own. I think it teaches you how to be independent and survive on your own and not really need anyone, although I definitely needed help in Madrid. It was kind of a disaster. I ended up living with nuns, but that's a whole other story.
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But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
