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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
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
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Best Doctors Invented Feeding Injections Ever Thing
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Man Age Old Father He Like Look Knows Because His Begins Growing Growing Old
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You Key Country Those Tell Tricks Folk Unbelievable Something Journalism Learned Reporters Done Transform Which Straight Fantastic Appears Plausible Credible Need
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love Morning Marriage Problem Before Breakfast Every Must Making Ends The Problem With After Rebuilt Every Night Night
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He Person Die Should
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Good Man Husband Bad Spouse
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Happiness Good Marriage Remember Important Good Marriage Most Most Important Thing Always Important Thing Stability The Most Important Thing
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Best Me World Try Only Could Writer Nobody Leaf Wrote Left Stop The Only Thing Wanted Storm Realized Moment Thing
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Truth Truth Is Few Satisfied Books Know Been Very Screen Who Novelists Adaptation
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Work Truth Me Truth Is Reality Problem Single Imagination Caribbean Wildest All My Work Does Always Praise Line Biggest While Resembles Basis
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Alone Reality Try Problems Nothing Other Our Latin Latin America Ways Must About Superpowers Through Outsiders Over Cliches America Break Centuries Us Fought
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Me Perspective Important Met Differences Gave Latin Latin America Latin American Paris Through Between Countries Most Most Important Thing Important Thing America American Taught The Most Important Themselves Europe Among Thing
In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation. Ingrid Betancourt
Life Every Guard Teeth Everything Way Paper Negotiation Details Something Brush Hostage Over Talk Another Permission Go Loses Essentials Which Little Ask Asked Acting Use Your Toilet Toilet Paper Captivity Satisfy
I am not irresponsible. Ingrid Betancourt
Am Irresponsible
I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle. Ingrid Betancourt
Family Me Carry Voices Within Were Jungle
You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.' Ingrid Betancourt
You Fear Master Say OK Scared Able Very Going Your
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