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.
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 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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At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.
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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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All 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.
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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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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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The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
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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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