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Alberto Giacometti Quotes: I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.
         

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.


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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.



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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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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.



When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

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

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



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



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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.



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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.



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

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



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The form is always the measure of the obsession.





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