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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."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane."
"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
Explore more quotes by Balthus
"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."
"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 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."
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