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Francesco Clemente Quotes

Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, ‘How do you do it?’ But, hopefully, it is beautiful Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living Picture Quote #1

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn’t give enough information about what the person feels Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, ‘How do you do it?’ But, hopefully, it is beautiful (Francesco Clemente Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living (Francesco Clemente Quotes) That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives (Francesco Clemente Quotes) My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting (Francesco Clemente Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn’t give enough information about what the person feels (Francesco Clemente Quotes) 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 Quotes)