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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.

Alberto Giacometti

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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Age Contradict Identify Myself Remain
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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Escape Face Human Oneself Strange Unknown
The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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Form Measurement Obsession
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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Close Different Impossible Myself See
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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Disappoint Master Myself See
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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Discover Image Known Myself Object Transformation
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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Myself Reason Work
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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Alone Finding Growth Myself Old
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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Artistic Children Creation Discover Myself Success
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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Color Course Elimination Intention Myself Paint Work
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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Honesty Prostitution Sex Woman
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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Animal Building Burning Choice Myself Save
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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Marvelous Myself Paint See
In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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Animal Cat Choice Dangerous Myself Save
Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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Failure Friendship Myself Success Worst
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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Art Need People See Yourself

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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