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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
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Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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 burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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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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