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 GIACOMETTIIf 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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and – instead of giving up – you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling – be it an illusion or not – that something new has opened up.
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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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