Fernando Botero

- at age 80...
I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.
-Fernando Botero

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

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.
-Fernando Botero

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

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

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

Sculptures permit me to create real volume... One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.
-Fernando Botero

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