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

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• Alberto Giacometti:

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

• Alberto Giacometti:

  I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my

• Alberto Giacometti:

  If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have t

• Alberto Giacometti:

  In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of

• Alberto Giacometti:

  In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet

• Alberto Giacometti:

  It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see

• Alberto Giacometti:

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

• Alberto Giacometti:

  Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displace

• 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