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Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
Artist
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Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
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Discover
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Whole
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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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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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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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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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've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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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