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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

Alberto Giacometti

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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
Artist
Designer
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
Writer
Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
Life
Copying
Chair
Chairs
Interests
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Interest
Reality

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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 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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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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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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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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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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It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
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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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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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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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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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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
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(Art is) the residue of vision.
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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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When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
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