Fernando Botero

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.