Quotes About Fernando Botero

#1. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish. I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.

Malala Yousafzai

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

Fernando Botero

#3. If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

A.R. Rahman

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

Fernando Botero

#5. Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

Dan Ariely

#6. I wish I had something to give you. Something of value. Something to bring you happiness. But I have nothing. Only my friendship in return for yours, for what it's worth.

C.J. Sullivan

#7. I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

Hans-Uwe Bauer

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

Debbie Harry

#11. If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen a convergence of the arrows of explanation, like the convergence of meridians toward the North Pole.

Steven Weinberg

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

Fernando Botero

#13. Give me a bottle of hard cider, a bowl of Peterson Irish Oak in my Neerup pipe, and please, above all, give my Henry David Thoreau's Wild Apples. Do that and you will see a man contented.

Nicholas Trandahl

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

Fernando Botero

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

Susan Sontag

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

Fernando Botero

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

Fernando Botero

#20. Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Herbert Hoover

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

Fernando Botero

#22. The ripple of today's lie is tomorrow's wave and next year's flood.

Max Lucado

#23. Hey, Dad, if I needed to check someone's background, would you be able to do that for me?"
"That's a little unethical, Liv." John smoothed his mustache. "Is this about a boy?"
Livia cringed. "Yeah, it is."
"Then absolutely. I'd be happy to.

Debra Anastasia

#24. 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

#25. 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