The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIArt is the residue of vision.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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 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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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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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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 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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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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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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