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Alberto Giacometti Quotes

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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
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
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
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: "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: "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

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