In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThe form is always the measure of the obsession.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Art is the residue of vision.
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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 you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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