"I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting……" — 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 that amuses me more than painting."
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15 Quotes by Fernando Botero
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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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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do…
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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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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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More Amuses Quotes
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
— Henry Adams
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,…
— P T Barnum
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It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality
— Grace Kelly
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I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does…
— Noel Coward
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
— Plato
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion…
— Samuel Johnson
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Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether…
— H. M. Tomlinson
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American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the…
— Katharine Whitehorn
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him.…
— Tahereh Mafi
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I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience…
— Jim Broadbent
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