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Alberto Giacometti - From the Colour category:
If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color? 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)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Discovery category:
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)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Discovery category:
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)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Drawing category:
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Effort category:
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)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Evolution category:
Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Failure category:
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. 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)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Finishing category:
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Form category:
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Importance category:
When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Loneliness category:
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)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Models category:
At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Morality category:
Whores are the most honest girls, they present the bill right away. The others hang on and never let you go. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Reality category:
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Reality category:
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Reality category:
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Seeing category:
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Seeing category:
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. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Solitude category:
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Spectator category:
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Subject category:
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)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Understanding category:
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Wonder category:
If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me. (Alberto Giacometti)
Alberto Giacometti - From the Work category:
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Alberto Giacometti)
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