20 Quotes by Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss artist who is widely regarded as one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work is characterized by its thin and elongated forms, which he used to convey a sense of isolation and existential angst. Giacometti was part of the Surrealist movement early in his career, but he eventually broke away to develop his own unique style. He worked in a variety of mediums, including bronze, plaster, and stone, and his sculptures are now held in museums and private collections around the world. (Bio)
Alberto Giacometti Quotes
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. (Meaning)
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. (Meaning)
The form is always the measure of the obsession.
The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.
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.
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
(Art is) the residue of vision.
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
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.
― Alberto Giacometti Quotes
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