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Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernica.' People would not remember the tragedy of Guernica today if it were not for that painting.

~Fernando Botero

Topics: Art Because Forget Happened Important Like Painting People Remember Reminds Start Them Today Tragedy Were Would

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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

~Fernando Botero

Topics: Dictators Did Many Portraits Satirical

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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.

~Fernando Botero

Topics: Art Artist Born Everything Game Give Like Priest Requires Serious Something Tell Them Very Which Would You

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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.

~Fernando Botero

Topics: Always Art Been Color Etc Even Exaggeration Expressed Form Gogh Life Nature Same Sense Some Theme Van Van Gogh Way Works

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I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight.

~Fernando Botero

Topics: Had How Me Old Ring School Someone Taught Took Uncle Us Who Years

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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

~Fernando Botero

Topics: Anything Anything Else Before Bulls Else Initiation Paint Painting Started

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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.

~Fernando Botero

Topics: Also Arena Bull Color Just Much Public Very

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Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.

~Fernando Botero

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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.

~Fernando Botero

Topics: Art Arts Because Been Ever Everything Fine Fine Arts Forgetting Good Good Luck Had Half Happens Life Luck Me Most My Life Nobody Schools Spend Students Way Which Would

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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

~Fernando Botero

Topics: Details Drawing Exterior Eyes Figures Form Gigantic Hole Huge Look Made Making Monumental Mouth Saw Small Sound Very Which

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Biography

Nationality: Colombian

Type: Artist

Born: April 19th, 1932

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