Francesco Clemente Quotes

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• Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
• 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…
• Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
• When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.
• That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
• 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…
• 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…
• My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
• 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…

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