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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour."
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"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
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"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."
Experience
"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
"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."
Nothing
"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."
Chaos
"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."
Art
"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
Painting
"Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really."
Language
"I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art."
Art
"I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings."
Will
"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."
Desire
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