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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
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Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
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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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
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It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
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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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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?
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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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