Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
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In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don’t think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about 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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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 paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.
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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
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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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Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn’t it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
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