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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.
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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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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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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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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