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Bullfights have so much color...

Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.

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A painted landscape is always...

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. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

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In art, as long as you have i...

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

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I often think about death and...

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.

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I'm a tireless worker; I don'...

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 15 quotes

Man needs spiritual expressio...

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

Fernando Botero 15 quotes

I create my subjects somehow ...

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.

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When you start a painting, it...

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

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An artist is born like a prie...

An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.

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People say, 'What a disciplin...

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.

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I love art so much because of...

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.

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I often think about death, an...

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.

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You paint what you know best;...

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.

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Art is always an exaggeration...

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.

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I was drawing a mandolin, and...

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

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I have the sensation of doing...

I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

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In the '60s, I did many satir...

In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

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I have seen Colonial churches...

I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.

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I love my country, and it hur...

I love my country, and it hurts not to be able to see my country, as I did for so many years. I hope that I will one day be able to live in a peaceful Colombia.

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I had wanted to be a sculptor...

I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

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