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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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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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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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.
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I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.
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Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.
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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.
