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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

Alberto Giacometti

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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
Artist
Designer
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
Writer
Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
Picture
Works
Terrible
Becomes
Impossible
Thing
Finish

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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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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 paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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