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.
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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.Alberto Giacometti
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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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.
Alberto Giacometti
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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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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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
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