The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIIf we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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.
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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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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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 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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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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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 you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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