Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away. (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. (Alberto Giacometti)
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)
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)
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself. (Alberto Giacometti)
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. (Alberto Giacometti)
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. (Alberto Giacometti)
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)
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. (Alberto Giacometti)
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)
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. (Alberto Giacometti)
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. (Alberto Giacometti)
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