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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 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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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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If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?
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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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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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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 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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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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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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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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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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