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When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.
— Francesco Clemente
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
— John G. Diefenbaker
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.
— 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
Putting us in risk is just plain stupid.
— Joe Teti
Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.
— Harry S. Truman
We're all messed up," I said. "I think life is just about finding the right people to be messed up with.
— Lindsey Leavitt
In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.
— Francesco Clemente
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
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
— Francesco Clemente
A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
By changing nothing, nothing changes. Tony Robbins
— Toni De Palma
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
— Francesco Clemente
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
— Francesco Clemente
I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.
— Francesco Clemente
Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'
— Simon Baker
I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.
— George Eliot
I really do love my sister. Especially when she's nice.
— Stephen Chbosky
Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
— Francesco Clemente