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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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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?
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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 form is always the measure of the obsession.
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The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.
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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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At first, one sees the person who is modelling but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.
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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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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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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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(Art is) the residue of vision.
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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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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
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