If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThe one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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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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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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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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 we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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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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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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 who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
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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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Art is the residue of vision.
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