“Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart.” HeartStoriesBeautifulMemoriesWrapsRibbonsBeautiful Memories Author:Flavia Cacace
“We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.” InspirationalUsePowerCapableConsciousCommandEvolvePermitCerebral Author:Frederick Tilney
“Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.” RealLife IsBlackVisionRichOur LivesFiguresArtisticComplexityInterpretationFrozenUnfinishedAmbiguousChoresCaricaturesKaleidoscopeBlack Lives Author:Charles Bartlett Johnson
“You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.” TryingEgoCriticismIntellect Author:Mike Brearley
“At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.” IntimacyImitationBeginners Author:Alice Fulton
“That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.” WayPersonsMomentsIntimacyThat MomentPortraits Author:Francesco Clemente
“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.” NeedsFeelsSelfAgeAgingNakedPortraitsRemindersAcidSelf PortraitAcid Trip Author:Francesco Clemente
“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.” IfsYearsMomentsFacesFallSawsMinutesDyingWallThousandBuddhistCavesAcidPersonaDrunkennessSeventeenOne MinuteSeventeen Years OldAcid Trip Author:Francesco Clemente
“My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.” PersonsHalfPaintingInventionPortraitsOther Half Author: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 beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.” HumansLittlesRealMomentsHelpingBitsHuman BeingsPaintingPoetSpeechLittle BitExtremesReal LifeRetreatPain In Life Author:Francesco Clemente