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