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Balthus Quotes & Sayings

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Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide. — Kurt Vonnegut

I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway. — Kristin Hannah

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. — Balthus

All the things magicians do
Could be done by me and you
Freely, if we only knew. — C.S. Lewis

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. — Balthus

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. — Balthus

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of ... kitsch. — Balthus

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. — Balthus

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world? — Henry David Thoreau

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus

What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. — Austin Kleon

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. — Balthus

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus

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. — Balthus

There is a great amity between designing and art. — Joseph Addison

A zebra does not change its spots. — Al Gore