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"We deal with so many nightmares on a regular basis. When I'm watching a horror movie, there's a pattern, a sense of control in them. I'm just an observer, not having to deal with any of the repercussions. It's a nice dream to think monsters play by the rules, that they've got a pattern you can unlock and follow. Real life's messy, and the chaos leaves you devastated in the wake."

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one."

"They (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment. And what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of half-broken things that they call their communion and that they would like to call their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? And so each of them loses himself for the sake of the other person, and loses the other, and many others who still wanted to come."

"At chaos' core lies the invitation."

"Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos."
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"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."

"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."
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