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Painting: more sayings
- “He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.”Jackson Pollock
- “What I remember most clearly is how it felt. I’d just finished painting a red fire engine-like the one I ofte…”David Macaulay
- “I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious li…”Caio Fonseca
Art: more sayings
- “The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”D. H. Lawrence
- “The more desperate the situation, the more opportunity for miracle. If you need something from God, you need…”Patience Johnson
- “If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page con…”Simon Cowell
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Books by Fernando Botero
Botero
1987