It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTITaste 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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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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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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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 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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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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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