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 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 orderwork Change image and share on social
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. Alberto Giacometti constructdeeplydiscover 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
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
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. Alberto Giacometti boildisappointform Change image and share on social
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 marvellouspaint Change image and share on social
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. Alberto Giacometti carefullychargeday share on social
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 equalfailurefaint Change image and share on social
