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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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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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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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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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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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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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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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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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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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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