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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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

That moment when the person ac...

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

When I look at a drawing of a ...

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

I first think of intelligence....

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

When I look at a drawing of a ...

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living. I don't know how to explain it, but 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 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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?

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

I am not academically trained,...

I am not academically trained, so my portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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.

Francesco Clemente 27 quotes

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