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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTITaste for things of the past evolves, doesn’t it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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 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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Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn’t it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. So long as I’ve learned something about why.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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