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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThe 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.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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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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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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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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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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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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