Category - Fernando Botero

Discover the thoughtful and inspirational Quotes of Fernando Botero, a philosopher and author. Our collection of his most impactful quotes reflects his deep understanding of language, philosophy, and history.
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Fernando Botero

All the animals I’ve painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.

– Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

– Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero

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.

– Fernando Botero

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

Fernando Botero

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

Fernando Botero

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

Fernando Botero

Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

– Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero

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

Fernando Botero

I love my country, and it hurts not to be able to see my country, as I did for so many years. I hope that I will one day be able to live in a peaceful Colombia.

– Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero

I’m the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I’ve lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I’ve lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I’ve lived in France more than 30 years, and I’ve never painted Paris.

– Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero

People say, ‘What a discipline, painting so much.’ I say, ‘No, I love it.’ Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.

– Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero

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

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