It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTII’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!
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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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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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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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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