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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

Alberto Giacometti

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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Enthusiasm Expression Hard Oneself Vision
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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Marvelous Myself Paint See
The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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Form Measurement Obsession
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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Myself Paint Protection Reality Sculpture
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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Happiness Impossible Myself Work
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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Artistic Children Creation Discover Myself Success
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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Disappoint Master Myself See
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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Color Myself Reproduction See
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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Art Himself Measurement Obsession Subject Work
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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Drawing Master Possible Potential
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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Animal Building Burning Choice Myself Save
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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Evolution Ourselves Past Pieces Taste
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
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Close Different Impossible Myself See
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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Artist Modeling Myself Person Possible Sculpture
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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End Failure Learning Myself See Try
Art is the residue of vision.
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Art One Liner Residue Vision

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