Alberto Giacometti Quotes - Page 2

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• Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).

  Alberto Giacometti

  Knowing, Facts, Tendencies

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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.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Artist, Sculpture, Littles

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

  Alberto Giacometti

  Cat, Fire

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• 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

  Color, Use, Should

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• Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Girl, Truth, Honesty

  "The thin man" by Kay Larson, "New York Magazine", p. 70, October 7, 1985.

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• If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Thinking, Glasses, World

  Alberto Giacometti, David Sylvester, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd (1977). “Thirteen bronzes: Alberto Giacometti”

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• 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

  Color, Intention, Paint

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• When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Care, Pay, Problem

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

  Alberto Giacometti

  Drawing, Understanding, Trying

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• 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

  Order, Want, Knows

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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.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Past, Years, Today

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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.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Distance, Fall, Confusion

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• Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Reality, Copying, Chairs

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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.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Loneliness, Past, Thinking

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• 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

  Equal, Can Do, I Can

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• It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Littles, Disappointing, Form

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