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.

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• Alberto Giacometti:

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

• Alberto Giacometti:

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

• Alberto Giacometti:

  The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

• Alberto Giacometti:

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

• Jacques Lipchitz:

  Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, thin

• Jacques Lipchitz:

  All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have

• Bruce Nauman:

  I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

• Bruce Nauman:

  I'll talk. You'll listen.

• Bruce Nauman:

  If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting

• Bruce Nauman:

  If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.