Alberto Giacometti Quotes

Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss Sculptor
Born: Oct 10, 1901
Died: Jan 11, 1966
Always Impossible Life Me More Work
Related authors: Alexander Calder Auguste Rodin Camille Claudel Constantin Brancusi Dan Flavin Henry Moore Ruth Asawa
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
Life Me Something Know Until Am Still Doing Discover Child Want Succeed Create Whole
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. Alberto Giacometti
Everything Drawing Thousand Thousand Times Understand Been Times Louvre Trying Fifty Copied
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
Work Art Every Sign Only Proportion Obsession Primordial Qualities Knows Always His Subject Artist Form Formal Whether Measure
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see. Alberto Giacometti
Impossible Way See More Because Get Closer Differently Thing
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone. Alberto Giacometti
Alone Myself Older Find More Grow
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
Life Work Today Fashion Day Matter Will Important Past Every Carefully Those One Day Charge Smallest Particle Like Pieces End Sculptures Recess
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
Work Something Know Order Want Why
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. Alberto Giacometti
Life Me Reality Rest My Life Spend Only Could Know Interests Chair Now Copying
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
Me Once Has-Been Object Constructed Tendency Facts Been Discover Impressions Moved Which Transformed Displaced Deeply Images
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
Loneliness People Thought Past Think Must About Fact Never Talk So Many People In The Past Working Reason Many Now
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
Work Tried Only Remained Color Never Another Course Doing Intention After Paint Eliminated Gray
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. Alberto Giacometti
Master Down See Could Disappointing Terms Always Form Little Really

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