If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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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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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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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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Art is the residue of vision.
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The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.
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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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