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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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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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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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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 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 a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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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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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
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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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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 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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