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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
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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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.
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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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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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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When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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