Art is the residue of vision.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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 older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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I’ve tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
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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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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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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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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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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