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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
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.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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 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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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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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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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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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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 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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