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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.

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
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Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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(Art is) the residue of vision.
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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
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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 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 one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.
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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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