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

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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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I'll be kicked out before I rust out.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
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It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.
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I always wondered why there weren't any films about Cesar Chavez. There are movies about other civil rights leaders in this country, but why not Chavez?
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.