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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.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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 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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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(Art is) the residue of vision.
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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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