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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
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Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
Sculpt
Grip
Paint
Protect
Reality
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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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I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
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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 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 you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in 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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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 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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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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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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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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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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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The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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