"An artist is attracted to certain kinds of……" — 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 or even justify it."
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15 Quotes by Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero has 15 quotes on this site.
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When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.
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A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and…
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Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.
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I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.
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I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more.…
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I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition…
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In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
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Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for…
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I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure;…
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Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that…
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I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.
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A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and…
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