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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIOnly reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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I don’t know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can’t do what I want to do.
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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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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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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 object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and – instead of giving up – you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling – be it an illusion or not – that something new has opened up.
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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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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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I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
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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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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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