BalthusI refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.332Humanity
BalthusPainting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.379Sadness
BalthusPainting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.358Sadness
BalthusPainting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.3610LifeSadness
BalthusI had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.327HumanityThought
BalthusThe 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.2910Sadness
BalthusI will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.202SadnessTime
BalthusPainting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.259Sadness
BalthusI 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.164Sadness
BalthusOne must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.189Life
