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.
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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Art is the residue of vision.
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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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