14 Quotes by Alberto Giacometti
- That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
- 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.
- I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
- The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
- It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
- 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.
- I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
- 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.
- If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
- 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!
- When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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