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Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero
Colombian Artist
Born: Apr 19, 1932
Art Life Me Painting People You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Claude Monet Edvard Munch Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Pablo Picasso Salvador Dali Vincent Van Gogh
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
Gift Style Conviction Everything Drawing Color Almost Almost Everything Identity His Just Sketching Then Painter
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life. Fernando Botero
Life Art Oasis Refuge Place Should Hardness
The circus leaves a sweet memory. Fernando Botero
Memory Sweet Circus Leaves
My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions. Fernando Botero
Work Mind Convictions Prism
In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say. Fernando Botero
Art You Energy Other Say Says Photo Something Put Attention Concentration Click Just So Much Energy Cannot Much Media
I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure. Fernando Botero
Art Seen Single Painting Saw Churches Small Colonial Picasso Had Since Course Very Modern Any Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Century Sculpture Painters Exposure Museum Museums
An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give. Fernando Botero
Art You Game Everything Tell Would Born Give Something Priest Like Very Artist Which Them Requires Serious
Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts. Fernando Botero
Life Art Good Me My Life Half Luck Spend Everything Good Luck Way Would Fine Fine Arts Students Had Nobody Most Schools Because Been Forgetting Arts Happens Which Ever
Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive. Fernando Botero
Arena Color Also Bull Very Festive Just Public Much
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
Eyes Made Mouth Saw Monumental Drawing Gigantic Details Small Look Making Sound Huge Very Mandolin Form Hole Which Figures Exterior
Expression without culture is flat. Many artists come out of art school and start doing things that don't last. They are audacious because of ignorance. They are irresponsible. Fernando Botero
Art Ignorance Culture School Out Come Because Without Audacious Doing Art School Artists Irresponsible Flat Many Expression Things Start Last
Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint. Fernando Botero
Before Painting Else Bulls Anything Anything Else Paint Initiation Started
The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice. Fernando Botero
Art Injustice Quality Obligation Sometimes Moral Obligation Situation Duty Tremendous Say Moral Something Only Feels Denounce Artist Confronted Choice Inclined
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
Life Art Nature Exaggeration Sense Way Van Van Gogh Some Color Always Been Same Gogh Form Etc Theme Works Even Expressed
My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it. Fernando Botero
Art Good Needs Painting Believe Design Everything Tell Composition Directly Color Obscure He Divorce Between Feels Talk Without Modern Modern Art Often Where Whether Explain Them Viewer Who Popularity Professor
I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight. Fernando Botero
Me School Old Uncle Took Ring Someone Had How Years Taught Us Who
Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well. Fernando Botero
People Think Hunting Cruel Know Well Cultural Very Electric Wars Many Chair Thing Things
The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus. Fernando Botero
World Gone Difficult Latin Latin America Circus Find Global Parts Exists Person America Maybe Africa Asia Theme Who

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