Formal Qualities Quotes by Alberto Giacometti

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• 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 to fashion…
• 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 simultaneous, as…
• All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less…
• When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down…
• If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
• The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up -…
• The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more…
• In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be…
• 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, but I…

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