The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIIn a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in 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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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 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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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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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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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