Botero Quotes

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

Fernando Botero

#2. I've already started saying that I'm 30 when I'm still 29. That way, I'm already there.

Rose Byrne

#3. 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.

Fernando Botero

#4. 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

#5. You are mine. I can do what I want with you. I can dress you. Fuck you. Send you away. Loan you to others. You belong to me. And you've finally realized it isn't romantic, it isn't sexy, or fun. It's something no one should want or desire. You're a captive.

Pepper Winters

#6. From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.

Andrew Davies

#7. It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

Neil Simon

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

Fernando Botero

#10. We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we'll see.

Andre Gide

#11. When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Fernando Botero

#12. Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Gloria Steinem

#13. History is always written to serve the powerful.

Kevin Emerson

#14. The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

Carol Mann

#15. His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

Orson Scott Card

#16. When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you're leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.

Francesca Marciano

#17. You could forgive a lot if somebody was there to take care of things until you grew up.

Jennifer Crusie

#18. 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

#19. 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.

Fernando Botero

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

Fernando Botero

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

Fernando Botero

#22. When it rains, it pours.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Fernando Botero

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

Fernando Botero