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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
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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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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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