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.
Fernando BoteroI often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
Fernando BoteroMan needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
Fernando BoteroIn art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
Fernando Botero