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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.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
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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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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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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.
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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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