That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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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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