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).
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIAll 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The form is always the measure of 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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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Artistically 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.
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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and – instead of giving up – you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling – be it an illusion or not – that something new has opened up.
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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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