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Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero Angulo (born 19 April 1932) is a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor. Born in Medellín, his signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He is considered the most recognized and quoted living artist from Latin America, and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

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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.

Beautiful, Beauty, Everything, Real, Refuge

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, Men, Music, Needs, Oasis, Perfection

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.

Amuses, Found, Painting, Pleasure, Tireless

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

Art, Bound, Ideas, Long, Thinking

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

Create, Forms, Giving, Real, Sculpture, Volume

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Describe, Form, Realistic, Reality

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

Aging, Know, Left, Littles, Time Left, Work

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

Artist, Fusion, Influence, Influences, Life, Richness

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.

Artist, Intuitively, Kind, Knowing, Position, Rationalize

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.

Color, Colors, Delight, Forms, Style

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

Art, Conclusion, Move, Moving, Painting

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

Art, Life, Spiritual

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. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. 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, Beautiful, Needs, Nourishing, Spiritual, Takes

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

Able, Love, Think, Thinking, World

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. . . even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

Caves, Men, Needs, People, Spiritual, Wall