When I make my drawings… the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).
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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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