Acid Quote by Francesco Clemente

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

— Francesco Clemente

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…

— Francesco Clemente

Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human…

— Francesco Clemente

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

— Francesco Clemente

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…

— Francesco Clemente

A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I…

— Francesco Clemente

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

— Francesco Clemente

It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which…

— Francesco Clemente

We are not naturally intelligent, or happy. In fact, every day it is harder to remain intelligent. It seems often that people get intelligent…

— Francesco Clemente

Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.

— Francesco Clemente

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

— Francesco Clemente

In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.

— Francesco Clemente