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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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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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