What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI

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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.

Alberto Giacometti

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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.

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI

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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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Intensity Object Reproduction
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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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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Disappoint See
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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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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End See
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 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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Color Reproduction See
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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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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Evolution Pieces
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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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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Prostitution
Art is the residue of vision.

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Art is the residue of vision.
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Residue
In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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Dangerous
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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Building Burning
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.

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI

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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Measurement Obsession Subject
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’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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Color Elimination Intention
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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Escape Oneself Unknown
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

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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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Chair Copy
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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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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Enthusiasm Expression Hard Oneself
Once 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 GIACOMETTI

Once 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).
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