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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhen 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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIOnce the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThe form is always the measure of the obsession.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThe 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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIIt was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThe 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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIFailure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThe one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThat’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIIf only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIIn a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhen you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTII 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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIIn 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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTII paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIAt 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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