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Fernando Botero Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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

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



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

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



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.

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 music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.



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

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



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

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



I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.



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

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



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.

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.



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

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





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Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live.

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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.



Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.



There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.



Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.



The treasures of the heart are most valuable of all.

The treasures of the heart are most valuable of all.



In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.



I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

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