#painting

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. ↗

— Balthus

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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. ↗

— Balthus

#attempt #best #better #even #find

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. ↗

— Balthus

#emotions #order #painting #passage #possible

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#believe #everybody #paintings #people #photographs

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets. ↗

— Ursula Andress

#around #buy #collect #even #frames

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. ↗

— Balthus

#desire #extraordinary #feel #i #i always

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. ↗

— Balthus

#consciousness #criticism #experience #feel #great

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#art #battles #cares #comes #down

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#been #benefit #i #i think #looking

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #colours #oscar-wilde #painting #the-picture-of-dorian-gray