I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day.

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• Fernando Botero:

  In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration o

• Fernando Botero:

  Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernic

• Fernando Botero:

  In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

• Fernando Botero:

  The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce.

• Fernando Botero:

  An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a

• Fernando Botero:

  Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has al

• Fernando Botero:

  Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then c

• Fernando Botero:

  My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the v

• Fernando Botero:

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

• Fernando Botero:

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