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Fernando Botero Quotes: 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.


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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.



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'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.



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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There's been a lot of stage combat over the years, and I've loved it. Started in college with William Shakespeare. I've always liked the active things.

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beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

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