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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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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."
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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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"I found I have to stay painting."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"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."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."
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"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
"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
"I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings."
Will
"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."
Experience
"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."
Art
"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
"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
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