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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
Artist
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Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
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I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
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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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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 you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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(Art is) the residue of vision.
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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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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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