"Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants."

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Fernando Botero

#Real Quotes #Giving Quotes #Sculpture Quotes

“There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.”
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
“The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.”
“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”
“One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".”
“Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.”
“I think fashion is probably one of the most accessible and immediate forms of visual culture. In 1978, when I realized that I wanted to work on fashion, I had gone to Yale to get my Ph.D. in European cultural history. I suddenly realized fashion's part of culture, and I can do fashion history. All my professors thought this was a really bad idea, that fashion was frivolous and unimportant. And, increasingly over time, people have recognized that it provides such a mirror to the way we think, our values and attitudes.”

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“The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.”

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