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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.
— Fernando Botero
Tags: you, art, beauty, life

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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
— Fernando Botero
Tags: attention, energy, you, art
Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
— Fernando Botero
Tags: identity, drawing, gift, style
I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
— Fernando Botero
Tags: had, stop, painting, life
My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
— Fernando Botero
Tags: convictions, mind, work
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.
— Fernando Botero
Tags: sunset, art, beautiful, women
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