Botero Art Quotes & Sayings

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life. — Fernando Botero

Naked female bodies with their legs apart, a granny and her sagging tits. Terrified, — Elif Shafak

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation. — Fernando Botero

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are. — Billie Jean King

A lot of artists feel it's not worth it to sign with a major label, because if you don't have a giganto hit, then you're not going to get a video made. You're not going to probably get much tour support. You're not going to get promotion. You're certainly not going to get a publicist who's going to pay much attention to you. — Ann Powers

We're not always ready to receive God's love. And we're not prepared to accept that it comes in a variety of ways. Often when we least expect it, God's love can show up in the form of something or someone we aren't happy to see-something or someone we want to push away or even run from. And, let me tell you, God's love can make us downright uncomfortable at times. — Melody Carlson

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. — Charlton Heston

A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time. — Terrance Zepke

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese. — Henry L. Stimson

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open. — John Steinbeck

When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly. — Anna Popplewell

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero

Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere. — Emma Smith

You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to be on top of the story, but words do matter. — Wolf Blitzer