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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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The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.
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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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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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 fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
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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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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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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