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(Art is) the residue of vision.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
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Alberṭo Gʼaḳomeṭi
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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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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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When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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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 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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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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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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