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I was functioning in a time when people were struggling, and they knew they had to struggle, and I was a part of that struggle. It wasn't just women. Faith Ringgold

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I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked. Faith Ringgold

Politics Think Struck Had Combination Worked Imagery

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content. Fernand Leger

Work Value Realistic Independent Properties Terms Content

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. Fernand Leger

Truth Understanding Painting Assume Validity Recognized Must General Dogma Axiom

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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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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

Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly. Florence Scovel Shinn

Hope Faith Looks Knows Accordingly Forward Acts Received

The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies. Florentijn Hofman

Work Death Religion Natural Church Slow City Steep Mortality Towards Reminds Leads Catholic Catholic Church Huge Up Decay Essentially Ascending Crawl Staircase Us Societies

I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst. Florentijn Hofman

Catalyst Said Always Duck Yellow Rubber

I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone. Florentijn Hofman

I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine. Florentijn Hofman

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