Fernando Botero Quotes
Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
Quotes to Explore
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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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A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience.
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When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
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Investors should absolutely look at short interest because short sellers do better homework than buyers of stock. That's for sure.
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People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
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There are still some fundamental economic differences. We've said all along our goal is get a lease and we're going to continue to work on it. I don't think it'll be done Friday. We're probably looking at next week.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
