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 its beauty. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
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 its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era,… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
