Quotes by Francesco Clemente - Page 1

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Drawing
Looks
Persons
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Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Acceptance
Fashion
Perfection
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I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Firsts
Needs
Thinking
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Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Beautiful
Love You
Making Love
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I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Decision
Feelings
Nausea
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That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Moments
Portraits
Way
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My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Half
Painting
Portraits
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To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Ideas
Song
Voice
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In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
New York
India
Naked
People
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I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Giving
Portraits
Portraiture
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I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Age
Portraits
Self
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It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Believe
Mean
Thinking
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There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Poetry
Looks
World
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When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Crazy
Half
Twenties
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And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Hate
Humorous
Way
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A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Alive
Light
Looks
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If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze." And neither of these two "virtues" is suited to an artist. The artist has to stay intelligent.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Artist
Intelligent
Two
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Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Littles
Real
Speech
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We are not naturally intelligent, or happy. In fact, every day it is harder to remain intelligent. It seems often that people get intelligent through pain, but you can't be sure because nobody really can say, "I've been suffering".
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Intelligent
Pain
People
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In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.
Francesco Clemente / Artist
Buddhist
Fall
Wall
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