The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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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).
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn’t it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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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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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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’ve tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
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