Alberto Giacometti Quotes

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.

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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.

life work theend

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

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

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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.

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

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