Fernando Botero Quotes

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

Fernando Botero

• Art
• Painting
• Thing
• Curiosity
• Improvise

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• I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Age
  • Industry
  • Ageing

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Hunger

• I am not in politics to make more money.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Politics

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Parents
  • Support

• It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Sad
  • Right

• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Like

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Look

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Mind
  • American
  • English

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• 'I got my pecs, I got limos, I got bitches, and all my limo's powered by bitch juice, and my spare pecs are in the limo.' … 'I'm gonna fuck you up. I'm gonna dig up your dad, and shove him up your mum and drink your blood from a drinking cup, you fuck!'

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Drinking

• Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

  

  Theo Hutchcraft Hurts
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Classical Music

• It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it.

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • People
  • Art
  • Black

• He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.

  

  Darrell Royal

• No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Country
  • Borders
  • Altruism

• I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Thing