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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIArt is the residue of vision.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn’t it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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