46 Quotes by Fernando Botero

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a painter, but finish my work as a sculptor taking delight in caressing the forms.

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

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

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.

The circus leaves a sweet memory.

There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.