I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhen you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.
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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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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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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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All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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