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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.
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've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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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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.
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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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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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
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