Fernando Botero Quotes
Expression without culture is flat. Many artists come out of art school and start doing things that don't last. They are audacious because of ignorance. They are irresponsible.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.
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When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.
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I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
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Expression without culture is flat. Many artists come out of art school and start doing things that don't last. They are audacious because of ignorance. They are irresponsible.
