Best quotes by Fernando Botero on Life

Checkout quotes by Fernando Botero on Life

• ‟ Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

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• ‟ All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

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• ‟ I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

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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.

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• ‟ 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