I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
More Quotes from 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
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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
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
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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