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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.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
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Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
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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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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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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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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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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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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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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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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
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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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