Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTIIf 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?
More Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.
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Art is the residue of vision.
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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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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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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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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