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).
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIArtistically 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.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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 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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Art is the residue of vision.
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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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 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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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 burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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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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