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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

Alberto Giacometti

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.
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Artist Modeling Myself Person Possible Sculpture
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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Art Civilization Life Memories Myself Past Replacement Rise Space Work
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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Close Different Impossible Myself See
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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Happiness Impossible Myself Work
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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Disappoint Master Myself See
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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Enthusiasm Expression Hard Oneself Vision
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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Discover Image Known Myself Object Transformation
If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?
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Color Myself Reproduction See
Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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Failure Friendship Myself Success Worst
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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Myself Paint Protection Reality Sculpture
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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Age Contradict Identify Myself Remain
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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Drawing Master Possible Potential
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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Alone Finding Growth Myself Old
Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn’t it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
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Evolution Ourselves Past Pieces Taste
I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. So long as I’ve learned something about why.
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End Failure Learning Myself See Try
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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Myself Reason Work

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

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