I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
More Quotes from 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
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.
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
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
Alberto Giacometti
If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color
Alberto Giacometti
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
Alberto Giacometti
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