It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see. Alberto Giacometti closedifferentlyimpossible Change image and share on social
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 factlonelinesspast Change image and share on social
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself. Alberto Giacometti grippaintprotect Change image and share on social
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 coloreliminategray Change image and share on social
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. Alberto Giacometti artmakepeople Change image and share on social
Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it. Alberto Giacometti aheadartisticallychild Change image and share on social
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. Alberto Giacometti chaircopyinterest Change image and share on social
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. Alberto Giacometti copydrawfifty Change image and share on social
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 artartistform share on social
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. Alberto Giacometti finishimpossiblepicture Change image and share on social
