I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge. Fernando Botero More Quotes by Fernando Botero More Quotes From Fernando Botero When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. Fernando Botero paintingartmoving Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. Fernando Botero spirituallifeart 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 kindknowingartist 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 oasismenart In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation. Fernando Botero ideasartthinking The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work. Fernando Botero fusioninfluenceartist I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality. Fernando Botero realisticformreality 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. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. 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 spiritualbeautifulart 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 delightstylecolor 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. Fernando Botero ableworldthinking 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 paintingpleasurefound Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants. Fernando Botero sculpturerealgiving I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left. Fernando Botero agingtime-leftlittles 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 realbeautifulbeauty Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Fernando Botero wallspiritualmen 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 giftstyledrawingidentity There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger. Fernando Botero sunsetwomenbeautifulart My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions. Fernando Botero prismconvictionsmindwork Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life. Fernando Botero placeoasislifeart The circus leaves a sweet memory. Fernando Botero leavesmemorycircussweet
