Create Yours

Top 15 Francesco Clemente Quotes (2025 Update)

Francesco Clemente Quote: “Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, ‘How do you do it?’ But, hopefully, it is beautiful.”

1. “Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, ‘How do you do it?’ But, hopefully, it is beautiful.”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.”

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

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.”

7. “And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one’s flaws.”

8. “Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one’s flaws.”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, “Fronte otra forze.” And neither of these two “virtues” is suited to an artist. The artist has to stay intelligent.”

9. “If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, “Fronte otra forze.” And neither of these two “virtues” is suited to an artist. The artist has to stay intelligent.”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “We are not naturally intelligent, or happy. In fact, every day it is harder to remain intelligent. It seems often that people get intelligent through pain, but you can’t be sure because nobody really can say, “I’ve been suffering.””

10. “We are not naturally intelligent, or happy. In fact, every day it is harder to remain intelligent. It seems often that people get intelligent through pain, but you can’t be sure because nobody really can say, “I’ve been suffering.””

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.”

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

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.”

12. “It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn’t give enough information about what the person feels.”

13. “I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn’t give enough information about what the person feels.”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.”

14. “I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.”

— Francesco Clemente

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

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

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.”

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

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “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 chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?”

18. “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 chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?”

— Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente Quote: “My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.”

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

— Francesco Clemente

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 15 Francesco Clemente Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.