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

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

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

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 the paintings'.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

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 refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.