In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
The form is always the measure of the obsession.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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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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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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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