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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhen 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.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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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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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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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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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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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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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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