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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 it is until I succeed in doing it.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Am Child Create Discover Doing Know Life Me Something Still Succeed Until Want Whole I Am Ahead

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It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Always Could Disappointing Down Form Little Master Really See Terms

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Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Been Constructed Deeply Discover Displaced Facts Images Impressions Me Moved Object Once Tendency Transformed Which

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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Art Look Made Need Other People See You

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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Been Copied Drawing Everything Fifty Louvre Thousand Thousand Times Times Trying Understand

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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 eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: After Another Color Course Doing Eliminated Gray Intention Never Only Paint Remained Tried Work

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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Chair Copying Could Interests Know Life Me My Life Now Only Reality Rest Spend

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Sculptor

Born: October 10th, 1901

Died: January 11th, 1966

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