When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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’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 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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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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 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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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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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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It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
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The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.
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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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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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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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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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All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.
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Art is the residue of vision.
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What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.
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