Botero's sculptures are imbued with an immense power of expression - one we find in the sensuality, force, grandeur, and common sense they convey. We observe and feel the delicate bronze surfaces as light passes over and touches them. We see sinuous lines unraveling all the mysteries of a shape. Or we can perceive the sculpture in terms of an overall image that is marvelously independent of reality... Botero is a man on a tireless quest for a beauty all his own: his artistic world is replete with affirmations and negations. In that sense his characters are as universal as they are eternal.