Swiss - Sculptor | October 10, 1901 - January 11, 1966
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
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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.
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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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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.
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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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