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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Becomes Finish Impossible More Picture Terrible Terrible Thing Thing Works

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It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Because Closer Differently Get Impossible More See Thing Way I See

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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 must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: About Fact In The Past Loneliness Many Must Never Now Past People Reason So Many People Talk Think Thought Working

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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Get Grip Myself Paint Protect Reality Sculpt

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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 in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Carefully Charge Day End Every Fashion Important Life Like Matter One Day Particle Past Pieces Recess Sculptures Smallest Those Today Will Work

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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

Topics: Because Could Else Marvellous Only Paint See Someone Then Would I See

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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 sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Always Art Artist Every Form Formal His Knows Measure Obsession Only Proportion Qualities Sign Subject Whether Work

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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Alone Find Grow More Myself Older

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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.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Know Order Something Want Why Work

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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 or perhaps equal to the failure.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Always Equal Ever Failure Faint Image Less Only Perhaps See Success Than Will I See I Can

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Sculptor

Born: October 10th, 1901

Died: January 11th, 1966

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