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.
Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. - Fernando Botero
Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.
- Fernando Botero
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
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.
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 bea… - Fernando Botero
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 bea…
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
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. - Fernando Botero
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. - Fernando Botero
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.
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 … - Fernando Botero
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 …
I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality. - Fernando Botero
I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.
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