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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
— Fernando Botero
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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
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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
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
— Fernando Botero
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My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
— Fernando Botero
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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
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