Fernando Botero Quotes

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Art is the child of Nature.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Art is a sense of magic.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea that's not yours. So when you're creating, that's the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.

I am deeply moved by sculptures of powerful women.

In a lot of ways, the cool thing about modeling is that other people and artists I look up to are able to project their artistic visions onto me, and it was really exciting to be a muse in that way and carry out a vision.