That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
More Quotes from Alberto Giacometti:
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.Alberto Giacometti
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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 been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
Alberto Giacometti
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