If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
The form is always the measure of the obsession.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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 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’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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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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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI