Balthus
Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth29 February 1908
CountryFrance
art writing people
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
thinking order people
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.
struggle self criticism
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle...
eye drawing sketching
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
art painting pleasure
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
art desire looks
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.
order emotion chaos
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
painting language knows
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
kitsch speak ifs
If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.
looks crafts painting
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.
painting kind worst
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
looks way painting
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.
great painting
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.