The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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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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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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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces… So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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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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In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don’t think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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Art is the residue of vision.
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The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
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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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