Charlie Rose

Callie321  07/27/2010 09:03 PM Report

rich and engaging. just wanted I needed to hear tonight. Have felt from my first viewing Clemente powerful,artist.

CB2  12/30/2008 03:25 PM Report

I have followed this artist's work from afar since the mid-80s and have admired it in the occasional interview with him in various press releases, but to actually hear him speak was extraordinary. While Hindu mythology is not my thing. The art is quite beautiful and revealing as well as insightful. I like his humility as an artist. This is quite refreshing. It gives me hope that one day I can make a living as an artist and still be home all about my talent.

james  10/09/2008 09:44 AM Report

An amazing interview in spite of Charlie relying on his rote method of questioning..either he didn't understand Francesco's way of thinking or he wasn't listening. Get a new bag of tricks to work with Charlie!

Nancy  09/28/2008 03:21 PM Report

Clemente was so afraid of being exposed as a fraud that he was completely guarded with Rose's probing. His comments were so obtuse that they left you with the impression he's tapped into some mystical universe where we have never been. Maybe the psychedelic drugs helped him get there? Finally, with Rose's persistance, he opened up and became real as he discussed the soprano paintings. Masterful interviewing on Rose's part.

Warren Neal  09/16/2008 11:52 AM Report

Charlie Rose is a treasure of unusual value. We learned so much from this truely great artist about just what the "gifted group" imparts to society. It just stuck in my head that women are truely bridges and men are castles.

Jeffrey  09/02/2008 12:21 AM Report

i missed the aired program of this special interview. but thankfully the following day at work my dear friend brought it to my attention & began chatting with me about it. i could tell just by his excitement that it was something i needed. wow! so inspiring, touching & life affirming. thank you.

Jill Downey  08/24/2008 10:49 PM Report

I was so inspired by this interview. Truly one of the best ever. Thank you!

susanne  08/24/2008 07:58 AM Report

what an amazing interview!! <bridges connect spaces>, and to be more interested in bridges ( regarding women) not in castles ( regarding men) is a wonderful perspective of life. Thank you!

sigh  08/23/2008 10:27 PM Report

I love love love the series of portraits he did of his beautiful wife. I would love to have a print of one of them...a sort of modern Madame X.

Cynthia  08/23/2008 02:16 PM Report

This is one of the most moving conversations I've listened to, thank you!

Simon Hendrix  08/23/2008 12:55 PM Report

I thought when Francesco describing "cling" as the sort of the kiss of death as very revealing to me at least.

Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" nailed it!.....

karendawson.com  08/23/2008 10:50 AM Report

I'm sorry... I don't quite go along with the majority here. I had a hard time trusting the surface, and in fact see Clemente as quite guarded, for all his relaxed beingness. I did think he was right to reframe the "talent" question to a matter of language and work.

Chris A  08/22/2008 11:47 PM Report

Clemente is a conjuror. He moves fluidly between art and revelation. So agile, so thoughtful, so relaxed. What a treat to hear the words in his own soft voice; strange how familiar the sound of wisdom is. Let us be disturbed by what we hear as well as comforted.

david  08/22/2008 04:50 PM Report

francesco clemente still twinkles the sixties, loves women, and paints them both. one wonders if he is indian, italian , american, or just a new york prankster who met the right people at the right time. no matter, he is an extraordinary human who relates one on one even through the glass tube. being from new mexico, i wanted to "see" more of his work while discussing. is there another more artful presentation of him in the future? i want to go to dinner with him.

Shivangi Shrivastava  08/22/2008 04:28 PM Report

An amazing interview - one of Charlie's best. Thank you, Charlie!

Y. Maraboli  08/22/2008 04:05 PM Report

Please, post the interview with Francesco Clemente. It was incredible and should be watched and listened to more than once. Thanks

Catherine  08/22/2008 03:56 PM Report

This is my favorite interview ever on Charlie Rose. Thank you!!!

Mark Nahm  08/22/2008 03:55 PM Report

So much magic happens at your table and this was another magical experience!

Betty   08/22/2008 10:48 AM Report

Great interview and a great guest. Thank you.

Haroldine Hansen  08/22/2008 09:26 AM Report

Saw Clemente in 1999, wish I had know this much about him then! Great interview!!!!Thank You Charlie Rose!!!!

Linda Zweig  08/22/2008 07:59 AM Report

Thank you for making GOOD art the focal point of your

show.

I gave a lecture "Cucchi, Chia and Clemente" over

twenty years ago with the emphasis on concept and

what makes art great. They were the art stars of the

moment.

Your interview reminded me that really good art (artists)

endure long after the spotlight has shifted!

Pamela  08/22/2008 04:27 AM Report

I 've loved him since the 80s and the Retropective, as an artist...but after this I love him as a person. What an interview...Charming. Alba, please let him do this again!

Linda  08/22/2008 02:41 AM Report

Charlie Rose' interview with Francesco Clemente was almost spiritual in its content. A superb interview, and the meeting of two incredible minds on the subject of art was a beauty to behold. Bravo - encore!

Douglas  08/22/2008 01:25 AM Report

A wonderful interview. A master class given in the heart rhythm of a sensitive artist. Universal. Bravo Charlie! And thanks!

camargo  08/22/2008 01:11 AM Report

Francesco is one of the handfull of great real artist we still have today. We no longer have Andy, or Jean Michel, but we still have Francesco, and Julian Schnabel. He also made the paintings for the movie GREAT EXPECTATIONS, and did a cameo as a shrink in GOODWILL HUNTING.

David  08/21/2008 11:09 PM Report

A very inspiring interview. The chemistry was magical. The insights exlored deeply touched me as an artist. Thanks!

Aileen  08/21/2008 10:14 PM Report

What a beautiful man...and an extraordinary interview...

We desperately need more Francesco Clemente's in this world.

He reminded me I am not alone...though it often seems like it.

Thank you for this interview Mr. Rose.

deb spanger  08/21/2008 06:23 PM Report

.......thanx so much for this interview, charlie.....i've felt for some time that more visual artists needed to find their way to conversation at your table.........whenever you sit down with artists, something very special happens.....francesco clemente is essential to these times.....most grateful for the chance to sit in on this one....my hand in yours.........

carolyne  08/21/2008 06:22 PM Report

Charlie Rose is a fabulous host. I am loving his interview with Francisco Clemente. Charlie Rose gets it!! Excellent job Charlie.

coease   08/21/2008 05:18 PM Report

Tried to purchase a transcript of today's show with Francesco Clemente. I was linked to Voxant, where, unfortunately, I was never able to find the transcript.

Please advise as to how I may obtain the transcript.

Thank you.

Peter  08/21/2008 05:10 PM Report

I am a devoted fan of CR. I watched 2 minutes of last night's interview with Mr Clemente, not knowing who he was. In those 2 minutes I felt he was so self-involved, so self-precious (saying it took manual laborers' acknowledgment of his long working hours and endurance for him to consider painting manual labor and that women are more intelligent than men because they are bridge builders and that men are the opposite of that (sorry-forget his exact wording). I've known a number of female bridge builders in my time (and burners). I was so turned off by his pandering to women, his "mysticism". I do, however, find his work interesting.

laurie  08/21/2008 03:55 PM Report

Thank you, thank you, thank you Charlie for interviewing a painter. Francesco Clemente spoke beautifully of working and thinking in the current moment. It gave me nourishment.

Enrico  08/21/2008 03:37 PM Report

Bravissimo Francesco, bravissimo Carlo...una conversazione extraordinario; molto grazie!

Patricia V.  08/21/2008 03:37 PM Report

As I listened to Mr. Clemente describe his work and insights I experienced the same feeling I have when listening to a beautiful piece of music. Truth is beauty, beauty truth.

John Redman  08/21/2008 03:09 PM Report

Francesco Clemente touches a part of my humanity that I seldom visit. His work continues to remind us to "look" at the world with fresh eyes.

Kimberly Schavey  08/21/2008 02:41 PM Report

I just spent a week at the Bodhi Manda Zen Center contemplating Beauty, the Divine, and the need of beauty in order to sustain our world. I so wish that both Charlie and Francesco had been in attendance, as they would have brought much to the energy, the conversation, and the Beauty.

There is something so right about the world when this is on broadcast television during lunchtime. Blessings.

Clara Jean  08/21/2008 02:02 PM Report

I fell in love with this artist. I have a mad crush on him now; am his age! Seriously, great interview. Sometimes Charlie operates in a mutual, reciprocal zone that "has it all". Thanks for that one..very much.

andrea  08/21/2008 01:55 PM Report

In the interview a reference was made to a quote, "life is what you do..". I recall a broadwy musical, Zorba, which had a song "life is what you do..while you're waiting to die".

Sherry  08/21/2008 01:33 PM Report

Two viewings will be followed by a third to catch what I didn't earlier. What started out slowly, perhaps due to Mrs. Clemente's request divulged at the end, evolved into more info than I could process before the next idea arrived. Wonderful show -- thanks!

satchel  08/21/2008 01:28 PM Report

very moving interview

Stefano Campanini  08/21/2008 01:22 PM Report

Last night we had one of the nicest, deepest interviews ever broadcasted, where Charlie Rose was able to let Clemente express his sensitivity, his fears, his being naked in front of this world and the re-creation of his own world, the constant research of a deeper sense within the unknowns in life.

Sofia  08/21/2008 01:11 PM Report

Please post a conversation and a vidio with Francesco Clemente. It was very interesting and extraordinary. Thanks

lynn  08/21/2008 11:04 AM Report

Please post the conversation with Franceso Clement. I want my daughers to see it. It was beautiful. He was patient for the answer, beautifully slow.

lynn  08/21/2008 11:02 AM Report

Please post the Francesco Clemente video. I want my daughters to see it. This was beautiful, his thinking clear, patient for the answer, and yes slow, beautifully slow.

Stan  08/21/2008 10:25 AM Report

Clemente is more than an artist; he is a philosopher with much to teach. I watched the show twice already and will watch my area's third showing of it later on this evening for additional tidbits of treasure.

H  08/21/2008 09:05 AM Report

Great stuff; honesty is here.

AG  08/21/2008 01:13 AM Report

wow

extraordinary