I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIIn a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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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 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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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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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces… So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
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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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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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 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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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 object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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