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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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist’s obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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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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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 object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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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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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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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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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