46 Quotes by Fernando Botero

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

Man needs music, literature, and painting – all those oases of perfection that make up art – to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there’s more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

I’m a tireless worker; I don’t consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven’t found anything that amuses me more than painting.