What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThe form is always the measure of the obsession.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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