Artist Quotes by Alberto Giacometti

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

— Alberto Giacometti

(Art is) the residue of vision.

— 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

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

— Alberto Giacometti

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

— Alberto Giacometti

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

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

— Alberto Giacometti

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

— 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

All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as…

— Alberto Giacometti

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion…

— Alberto Giacometti

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work…

— Alberto Giacometti

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities…

— Alberto Giacometti

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to…

— Alberto Giacometti

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made…

— Alberto Giacometti

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I…

— Alberto Giacometti

If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I…

— Alberto Giacometti

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities…

— Alberto Giacometti