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Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse. (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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. (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
The form is always the measure of the obsession (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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! (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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? (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 Giacometti Quotes)
Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn’t it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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... That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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 (Alberto Giacometti Quotes)
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