The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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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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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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 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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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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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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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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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