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Balthus [1908-2001] French
Rank: 105
Artist (with paintings)
Neoclassicism


Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist.
Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world.

Art, Experience, Great



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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. Art
101
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. Great
102
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. Art
103
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. Art
104
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.
105
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. Experience
106
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
107
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
108
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.
109
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.
110

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