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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.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
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I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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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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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.
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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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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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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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