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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. "
Mystery
Feel
Look
" I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. "
Art
Write
Refuse
" I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. "
Better
Always
Worst
" One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. "
Always
Art
Cannot
" Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. "
Know
Painting
Say
" Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. "
Painting
Pleasure
Source
" Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. "
Emotions
Art
Painting
" Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. "
Great
Experience
Feel
" 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. "
Way
Say
Now
" 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
Left
Craft
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