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Alberto Giacometti quotes: In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: 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

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.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

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

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

Alberto Giacometti quotes: Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

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

Alberto Giacometti quotes: In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

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

Alberto Giacometti quotes: 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.

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

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

Alberto Giacometti quotes: It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: The form is always the measure of the obsession.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: 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.

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.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality ... to protect myself.

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

Alberto Giacometti quotes: If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

Alberto Giacometti quotes: If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?

Alberto Giacometti quotes: I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

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

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

Alberto Giacometti quotes: (Art is) the residue of vision.

(Art is) the residue of vision.