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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
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.
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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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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 we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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