Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn’t it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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’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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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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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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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 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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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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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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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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