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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

Alberto Giacometti

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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
Artist
Designer
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
Writer
Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
Sculpt
Grip
Paint
Protect
Reality

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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.
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I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.
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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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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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