When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhen you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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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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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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