If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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I’ve tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
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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.
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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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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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