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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIAt 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 paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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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’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.
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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 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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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