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Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).
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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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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