"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,"

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Source : "Fernando Botero: Colombian Artist Turns 80 And Has No Plans To Retire" by Laura Steiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2012.

Fernando Botero

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Able Quotes

“Beware of flattery, 'tis a weed Which oft offends the very idol--vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.”
“I think we're our biggest competition. I think the racetrack's the biggest competition. If we go and race the racetrack and try to go around the racetrack faster than our competition, then that's the goal. I look at it as a competition between us and the racetrack because it's all about lap time.”
“Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.”

Source : "Market failures" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.
“A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“If you had better sense youâ€™d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness”
“It's one of those things when you are in a role you have to do what they ask you to do. If they want me to come in and stick it in, I have to come in and stick it in.”
“There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.”

Source : "Rand Paul Warns Donald Trump Not To Choose ‘Menace’ John Bolton As Secretary Of State" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2016.

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