"Only reality interests me now and I know……" — Alberto Giacometti
"Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair."
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Alberto Giacometti
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34 Quotes by Alberto Giacometti
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important…
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes…
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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always…
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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion…
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If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint…
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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving…
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The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more…
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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…
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something,…
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I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair.…
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When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
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In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries…
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo…
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