Wednesday, January 27, 2010

A Balthus Quote

Balthus, Les Beaux Jours (The Golden Days) (1944-1946)

''Art is a metier,'' Balthus declares, having worked himself once more into a lather. ''I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a worker. Unfortunately, now this idea seems useless because if you look at modern art you see that now everybody can do everything.'' He shakes his head in disgust. ''And in fact nobody does anything.''

MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, The New York Times,

August 25, 1996



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