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

Quote by Francesco Clemente

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Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente is an Italian artist known for his unique painting style and the fusion of Eastern philosophy with Western art. His works often contain strong emotions and personal symbolism, which are highly appreciated by audiences. more

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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 self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.”

Needs Feels Self Age Aging Naked Portraits Reminders Acid Self Portrait Acid Trip

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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 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.”

Ifs Years Moments Faces Fall Saws Minutes Dying Wall Thousand Buddhist Caves Acid Persona Drunkenness Seventeen One Minute Seventeen Years Old Acid Trip

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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 from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.”

Humans Littles Real Moments Helping Bits Human Beings Painting Poet Speech Little Bit Extremes Real Life Retreat Pain In Life

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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 blooded movie and find poetry in it.”

Knows World Looks Poetry Poet Cold Cold Blooded

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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 all participate in.”

Ideas Poetry Song Voice Poet Primeval

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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.”

Giving Feels Persons Enough Information Paint Photograph Portraits Portraiture

Author: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 look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.”

Looks Persons Light Seems Certain Alive Photograph Fixed Reminders Watercolors

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“Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.”

Knows Names My Friends Forgotten Intimacy Muscles

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“The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a whole... so that he may then execute it with warmth and as if the entire thing were done at the same time.”

Ifs Thinking May Done Whole Painter Chiefs Consideration Warmth

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