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.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIIn 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.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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I don’t know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can’t do what I want to do.
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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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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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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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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 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 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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I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. So long as I’ve learned something about why.
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If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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 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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