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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.

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
Find
Marvelous
Trying
Crafts
Long
Failing
Something
Becomes
Learned
Whether
Comes
Secondary
Ends
Fails

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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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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.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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.
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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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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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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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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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 we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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