Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIArtistically 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.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
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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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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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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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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces… So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
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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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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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