There's poetry in the world. P...
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.
When you sit for an hour and a...
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?
Fashion is the pursuit of perf...
Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
I repeatedly refuse to make an...
I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.
It is very scary to think mech...
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.
We are not naturally intellige...
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."
In India and in New York the e...
In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.
And dilettantism is a humorous...
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.
If you want to compete in Ital...
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.
I first think of intelligence....
I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.
When I look at a drawing of a ...
When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.
A photograph to me is always a...
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.
I never paint a portrait from ...
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
To me the poets are closer tha...
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.
Maybe poets express more direc...
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.
My portraits are half what I s...
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
In my head I am in one of thos...
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.
I'm at the age where I don't n...
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.
That moment when the person ac...
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
To me the poets are closer tha...
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. Maybe they 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.
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