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).
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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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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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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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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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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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 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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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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 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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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