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> [When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/when-you-start-a-painting-it-is-somewhat-outside-you-at-the/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

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## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/a-painted-landscape-is-always-more-beautiful-than-a-real-one-because/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/i-m-a-tireless-worker-i-don-t-consider-painting-a-work-it-is-not-an/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

> [In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/in-art-as-long-as-you-have-ideas-and-think-you-are-bound-to-deform/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

> [Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/man-needs-spiritual-expression-and-nourishing-even-in-the-prehistoric/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

> [I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/i-work-more-now-perhaps-because-i-know-that-there-is-so-little-time/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

> [Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/art-is-a-spiritual-immaterial-respite-from-the-hardships-of-life/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/i-often-think-about-death-and-it-saddens-me-to-leave-this-world-and/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

> [I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/i-describe-in-a-realistic-form-a-nonrealistic-reality/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

> [Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/man-needs-music-literature-and-painting-all-those-oases-of-perfection/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

> [The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/the-richness-of-an-artist-is-the-fusion-of-influences-that-have/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

> [When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/when-you-start-a-painting-it-is-somewhat-outside-you-at-the/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

> [Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/sculptures-permit-me-to-create-real-volume-one-can-touch-the-forms/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

> [I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/i-create-my-subjects-somehow-visualizing-them-in-my-style-i-start-as/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/a-painted-landscape-is-always-more-beautiful-than-a-real-one-because-2/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

> [An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-botero/an-artist-is-attracted-to-certain-kinds-of-form-without-knowing-why/)

[Fernando Botero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-botero/)

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