Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Small
Maybe
Remained
Happiness
Contradictory
Less
Identify
Ever
Twelve
Everything
Totally
Exactly
Boys
More quotes by Alberto Giacometti
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Alberto Giacometti
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
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
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.
Alberto Giacometti
The form is always the measure of the obsession.
Alberto Giacometti
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
Alberto Giacometti
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
Alberto Giacometti
Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
Alberto Giacometti
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
Alberto Giacometti
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
(Art is) the residue of vision.
Alberto Giacometti
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
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
Alberto Giacometti
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
Alberto Giacometti
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
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
Alberto Giacometti
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
Alberto Giacometti
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
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
In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
Alberto Giacometti
