It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
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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
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
Alberto Giacometti
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
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.
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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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