In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIIf we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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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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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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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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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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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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The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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