I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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Other Quotes by "Alberto Giacometti"

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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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.
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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.
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If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
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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.
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