In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. - Alberto Giacometti
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
- 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 one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
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
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…
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. - Alberto Giacometti
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
The form is always the measure of the obsession. - Alberto Giacometti
The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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
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…
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible. - Alberto Giacometti
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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 is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. - Alberto Giacometti
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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