I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous. - Francesco Clemente - Quotesmemo.com

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I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

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Francesco Clemente

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

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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.

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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.

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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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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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