Botero

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

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.
-Fernando Botero

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

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