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!
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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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 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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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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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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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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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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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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