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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.

Alberto Giacometti

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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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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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The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn’t care.
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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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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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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