Alberto Giacometti
"It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see."
Alberto Giacometti
"That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish 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
"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
"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
"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."
Alberto Giacometti
"It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little."
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
"Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair."
Alberto Giacometti
"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity."
Alberto Giacometti
"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity."
Alberto Giacometti
"The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express."
Alberto Giacometti
"Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse."
Alberto Giacometti
"When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness."
Alberto Giacometti
"It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see."
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
"The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways."
Alberto Giacometti
"That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it."
Alberto Giacometti
"What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else."
Alberto Giacometti
"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
"If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all."
Alberto Giacometti
"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
"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
"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
"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
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