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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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Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
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I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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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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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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I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
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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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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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