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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces… So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
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Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).
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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.
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