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?
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThe 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.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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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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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
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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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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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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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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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