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Francesco Clemente - From the Aging category:
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)
Francesco Clemente - From the Drawing category:
When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living. (Francesco Clemente)
Francesco Clemente - From the Drunkenness category:
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)
Francesco Clemente - From the Intimacy category:
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. (Francesco Clemente)
Francesco Clemente - From the Invention category:
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. (Francesco Clemente)
Francesco Clemente - From the Love category:
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful. (Francesco Clemente)
Francesco Clemente - From the Models category:
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)
Francesco Clemente - From the Painting category:
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)
Francesco Clemente - From the Poetry category:
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)
Francesco Clemente - From the Poetry category:
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)
Francesco Clemente - From the Portraiture category:
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. (Francesco Clemente)
Francesco Clemente - From the Watercolours category:
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)
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