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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIThe older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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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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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 object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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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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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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If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
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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.
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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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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 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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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’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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Art is the residue of vision.
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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 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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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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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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