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

- 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

The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

- Alberto Giacometti

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

- Alberto Giacometti

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 i…

- Alberto Giacometti

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

- Alberto Giacometti

The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary…

- Alberto Giacometti

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

- Alberto Giacometti

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

- Alberto Giacometti