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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?
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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
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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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