Alberto Giacometti

I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

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.

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.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

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.

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