Art Quote by Fernando Botero Download Open image “In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.” — Fernando Botero ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Bounds Ideas Long Nature Thinking
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement. — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form. — Daniel Bell 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
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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image