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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
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"Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really."
"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."
"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 what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."
"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."
"I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings."
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