Fernando Botero Quotes

• Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Life, Spiritual, Art

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• Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Art, Men, Oasis

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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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  Art, Moving, Painting

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• 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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  Artist, Knowing, Kind

  Fernando Botero (1992). “Fernando Botero: Paintings and Drawings”, Prestel Pub

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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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  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  Fernando Botero (1972). “Fernando Botero”

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• The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

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  Artist, Fusion, Influence

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• I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

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  Reality, Realistic, Form

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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 one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

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  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

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• 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 painter, but finish my work as a sculptor taking delight in caressing the forms.

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  Color, Style, Delight

  Fernando Botero (1972). “Fernando Botero”

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• 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.

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  Thinking, World, Able

  "Fernando Botero: Colombian Artist Turns 80 And Has No Plans To Retire" by Laura Steiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2012.

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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; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

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  Painting, Pleasure, Found

  "10 Things You Didn’t Know About Colombian Artist Fernando Botero" by Veronique de Miguel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

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  Real, Giving, Sculpture

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

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  Littles, Aging, Time Left

  "Famed Colombian Artist Fernando Botero Turns 80". www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2012.

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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 one takes refuge in its beauty.

  Fernando Botero

  Beauty, Beautiful, Real

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• Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

  Fernando Botero

  Spiritual, Wall, Men

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