Alberto Giacometti Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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

#Impossible #Terrible

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

#Art #Quality #Impossible

“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.”
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Children #Want #Succeed

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

#Would Be #Paint #Marvellous

“It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.”
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Vision #Way #Impossible

“All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.”
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Art #Memories #Past

“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Art #Reality #Intensity

“In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.”
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Cat #Burning #Vegetarian

“The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.”
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Beautiful #Gains #Grandeur