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«We proclaim: For us, space and time are born today. Space and time: the only forms where life is built, the only forms, therefore, where art should be erected.

States, political and economic systems, die under the push of the centuries: ideas crumble, but life is robust; it grows and cannot be ripped up, and time is continuous in life's true duration. Who will show us more efficient forms? Which great human will give us more solid foundations? Which genius will conceive for us a legend more elating than the prosaic story that is called life?»

Realistic Manifesto, Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner, 1920.

The Realistic Manifesto was first published on August 5, 1920, in poster form, on the occasion of an exhibition with Gustav Klucis in Moscow.

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«Realismo mágico, definitivamente no, porque en mis obras nada es mágico. Yo pinto cosas improbables, pero no imposibles. En mis cuadros nadie vuela y no suceden cosas inverosímiles. El arte es siempre una exageración en algún sentido, en el color, en la forma, aún en el tema, pero siempre fue así.»

Fernando Botero (1932-2023)

Fernando Botero: "En mis cuadros nadie vuela", Raúl Rivero, El Mundo, 20/08/2016.