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Alberto Giacometti Quotes

Alberto Giacometti quotes

Swiss Sculptor October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966

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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. Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti quote: "Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the..."
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. Alberto Giacometti
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. Alberto Giacometti
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. Alberto Giacometti
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. Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti quote: "I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied..."
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. Alberto Giacometti
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. Alberto Giacometti
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. Alberto Giacometti
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! Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti quote: "The older I grow, the more I find myself alone."
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone. Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti quote: "That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture,..."
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti quote: "When you look at art made by other people, you see what you..."
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti quote: "I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order..."
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. Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti quote: "It was always disappointing to see that what I could really..."
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti quote: "I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself. Alberto Giacometti

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