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Oh, I paint all the time.

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

I found I have to stay painting.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.