Fernando Botero Quotes

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• When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.
• 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…
• Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.
• I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.
• I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much,
• An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or…
• I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a…
• In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
• Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of…
• 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 that…
• Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.
• I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.
• 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…
• Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.
• The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

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