Facts Quote by 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…

— Alberto Giacometti

I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

— Chuck Close

“This usually occurs at the moment when my head hits the pillow at night; my eyes close and … I see imagery. I do not mean…

— Oliver Sacks

I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted…

— Zhang Xiaogang

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in…

— Jean Dubuffet

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

— Lucian Freud

I've come to realize that I'm a image maker, not an object maker. Images come to me as photographs because I don't have any…

— Gerardo Suter

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

— Henry David Thoreau

When we look at an object in a different way our perception of it immediately changes. But reality always stays the same...

— Sergio Pinto

When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if…

— E. J. Hughes