Alberto Giacometti ,quotes

Failure is my best friend. If ...

Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

The head is what matters. The ...

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.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

In a fire, between a Rembrandt...

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

In a burning building I would ...

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

In the past I have never thoug...

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 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

All I can do will only ever be...

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 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

All the sculptures of today, l...

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 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

Artistically I am still a chil...

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 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

At first, one sees the person ...

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.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

I don't know if I work in orde...

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 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

I paint and sculpt to get a gr...

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

I've been fifty thousand times...

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

I've tried doing so, for it wa...

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 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

If I see everything in gray, a...

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

If only someone else could pai...

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

I don't know who I am or who I...

I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

That's the terrible thing: the...

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

It is impossible to do a thing...

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

The object of art is not to re...

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

If we master a bit of drawing,...

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

Alberto Giacometti 03.03.2018 03:03:03 56 quotes

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