Art Quote by Alberto Giacometti Download Open image “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” — Alberto Giacometti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Art Reproduce Artist Create Reality Creativity Intensity Object Art Reality Reproduce Reality
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The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else. — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away. — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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