It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTII’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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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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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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 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 object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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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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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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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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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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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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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