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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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Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
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In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
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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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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
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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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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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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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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 see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.
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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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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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