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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

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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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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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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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