Art is the residue of vision.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThat’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).
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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 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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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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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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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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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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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist’s obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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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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