Top 17 Quotes by Alberto Giacometti

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.

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.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

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!

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

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.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.