"I don't know if I work in order……" — 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

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34 Quotes by Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important…
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes…
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always…
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion…
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint…
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving…
The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more…
In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there…
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something,…

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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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