In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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