In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhen 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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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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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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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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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
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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 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 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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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and – instead of giving up – you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling – be it an illusion or not – that something new has opened up.
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