My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

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• Fernando Botero:

  People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as muc

• Fernando Botero:

  I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've

• Fernando Botero:

  I love my country, and it hurts not to be able to see my country, as I did for so many years. I hop

• Fernando Botero:

  I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someo

• Fernando Botero:

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

• Fernando Botero:

  Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. I

• Fernando Botero:

  Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are c

• Fernando Botero:

  Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend h

• Fernando Botero:

  I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigant

• Fernando Botero:

  Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.