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.
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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When I make my drawings… the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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 form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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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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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.
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