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Alberto Giacometti Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sculptor
Nationality: swiss
Birth: October 10, 1901 - January 11, 1966

Topics

Someone See I See Paint Because

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

Reading Classics Like Virginia Also

I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.

Life Love Morning Great Radio Up

Fashion icons that are famous in Paris, it's Charlotte Gainsbourg or even me on the Internet, but we wear the same clothes every day - a white t-shirt with jeans - so why are we fashion icons?

Day Me Fashion Internet Clothes Why

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

Work Me Photography Phone Phone Call

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

Science Politics Think Political

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end.

I Am End Doing Television Born

My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.

Robbie Robertson

Mother Me Back Never She Hold

I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them. I don't like all the singing, dancing and all the dramatic crying. I have never seen a Bollywood film in my life.

Life Love Hate Opinion Singing

I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

Work Myself Man Fun I Can Messed Up

High jump is such a mental thing. It's you against the bar. It's something that a lot of people struggle with, and people experience slumps and plateaus because of it.

Experience Struggle People You Jump

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

People World Computers Transform

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

Win Start Better Hard Playing Going

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