Swiss - Sculptor | October 10, 1901 - January 11, 1966
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
WorkColorDoingIntentionNever
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
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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.
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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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It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
DownAlwaysMasterSeeLittleForm
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