The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThe one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
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The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
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I don’t know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can’t do what I want to do.
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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist’s obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
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It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
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Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
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I’ve tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
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