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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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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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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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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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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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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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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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