The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIIn a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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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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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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I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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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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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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