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.
More Quotes from Alberto Giacometti:
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.Alberto Giacometti
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
Alberto Giacometti
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.
Alberto Giacometti
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.
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