I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIAll 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.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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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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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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Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in doing 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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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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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