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.
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. - Fernando Botero
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships 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. - 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.
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 describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality. - Fernando Botero
I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.
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…
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.
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.
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 …
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