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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.

Alberto Giacometti

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
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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Chair Copy Interest Myself Reality
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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Art Need People See Yourself
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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Alone Finding Growth Myself Old
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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Marvelous Myself Paint See
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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Animal Building Burning Choice Myself Save
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
That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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Impossible Oneself Picture Terrible Work
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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Myself Paint Protection Reality Sculpture
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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Beautiful Day Different Myself Work
Art is the residue of vision.
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Art One Liner Residue Vision
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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Experience Failure Feeling Give Up Lost Moments Open Progress Success Yourself
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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Drawing Master Possible Potential
In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don’t think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
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Fact Myself Past People Talk Thinking
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 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

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