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Francesco Clemente has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
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When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so…
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Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
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When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.
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That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
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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…
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In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In…
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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.
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Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat…
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There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold…
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To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we…
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I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
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Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!
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This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
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A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed.…
— Francesco Clemente
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Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked…
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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
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