I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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 head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
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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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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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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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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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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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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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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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