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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
- Fernando Botero
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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.
- Fernando Botero
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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
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
- Fernando Botero
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
- Fernando Botero
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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.
- Fernando Botero
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
- Fernando Botero
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Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernica.' People would not remember the tragedy of Guernica today if it were not for that painting.
- Fernando Botero
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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.
- Fernando Botero
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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.
- Fernando Botero
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
- Fernando Botero
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My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
- Fernando Botero
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The circus leaves a sweet memory.
- Fernando Botero
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
- Fernando Botero
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Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
- Fernando Botero
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