I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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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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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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The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.
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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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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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When I make my drawings… the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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.
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Art is the residue of vision.
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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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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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and – instead of giving up – you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling – be it an illusion or not – that something new has opened up.
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