I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI

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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Alberto Giacometti

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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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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 paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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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Art is the residue of vision.

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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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