Literature Quotes by Fernando Botero

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in…

— Fernando Botero

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything…

— Fernando Botero

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

— Fernando Botero

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

— Fernando Botero

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so…

— Fernando Botero

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

— Fernando Botero

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism…

— Fernando Botero

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

— Fernando Botero

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

— Fernando Botero