Quotes by Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

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.

Can Do

Equal

I Can

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.

Art

Fashion

Past

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.

Artist

Littles

Sculpture

I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

Boys

Happiness

Who I Am

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I’ve learned something about why.

Crafts

Long

Trying

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

Drawing

Trying

Understanding

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?

Color

Should

Use

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

Bits

Drawing

Masters

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

Cat

Fire

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.

Loneliness

Past

Thinking

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Art

Artist

Beautiful

Bits

Boys

Can Do

Cat

Chairs

Color

Confusion

Copying

Crafts

Distance

Drawing

Equal

Faces

Facts

Fall

Fashion

Fire

Gains

Grandeur

Happiness

I Can

Impossible

Inspirational

Knowing

Littles

Loneliness

Long

Looks

Masters

Motivational

Needs

Past

People

Photography

Reality

Sculpture

Should

Steps

Tendencies

Terrible

Terrible Things

Thinking

Today

Trying

Understanding

Use

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Quotes by Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

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.

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.

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.

I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I’ve learned something about why.

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

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?

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

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.

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