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Alberto Giacometti Inspirational Quotes (41)

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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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 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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Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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