"I work more now perhaps because I know……" — Fernando Botero

"I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left."

— Fernando Botero

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15 Quotes by Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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.…
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do…
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition…
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…
I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure;…
Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that…
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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More Aging Quotes

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Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we… — Chinua Achebe
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their… — Margaret Atwood
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to… — Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon

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