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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIWhen 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.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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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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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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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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