All Alberto Giacometti Quotes
- If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible. Bit
- All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully… All
- I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself. Grip
- All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had… Affective
- All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure… All
- When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss. Abyss
- If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all. All
- The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on,… Experience
- The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and… Beautiful
- In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for… Fact
- In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. Building
- 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 what… Ahead
- In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a… Art
- I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary.… Becomes
- When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. Art
- 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. Inspirational
- I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. Been
- It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. Always Disappointing
- Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. Chair
- The older I grow, the more I find myself alone. Alone