Fernando Botero Quotes

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has always stood the test of time, from the Upanishads in the East, to Michelangelo in the West: art is the perception and depiction of the sublime, the transcendent, the beautiful, the spiritual.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

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

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

Art is a sense of magic.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.