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Fernando Botero - From the Aging category:
- at age 80...
I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Aging category:
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. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Art category:
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)
Fernando Botero - From the Art category:
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Artists category:
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. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Beauty category:
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)
Fernando Botero - From the Conviction category:
I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Creativity category:
Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Curiosity category:
I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Danger category:
There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Discipline category:
People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Drawing category:
Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Expression category:
Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Importance category:
Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernica.' People would not remember the tragedy of Guernica today if it were not for that painting. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Influence category:
The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Mediums category:
I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Painting category:
When you start painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Patriotism category:
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Sculpture category:
Sculptures permit me to create real volume... One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Subject category:
You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that. (Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero - From the Work category:
My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions. (Fernando Botero)
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