The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI

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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Alberto Giacometti

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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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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.

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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Art is the residue of vision.

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Art is the residue of vision.
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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 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
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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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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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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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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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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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.

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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.
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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 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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