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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
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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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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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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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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