Giacometti Quotes
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
— Alberto Giacometti
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
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
Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.
— Ron Darling
I'd rather have ten soldiers to guard than a single scholar.
— Alexandre Dumas
Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
— Alberto Giacometti
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
— Alberto Giacometti
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
— Alberto Giacometti
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
The form is always the measure of the obsession.
— Alberto Giacometti
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
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
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
— Alberto Giacometti
What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.
— Alberto Giacometti
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
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
— Alberto Giacometti
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
— Alberto Giacometti
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
— Alberto Giacometti
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
— Alberto Giacometti
In time the truth will come out, I will be cleared.
— Louise Woodward
My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
— Farrah Fawcett
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
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality ... to protect myself.
— Alberto Giacometti
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
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
— Alberto Giacometti
If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.
— David Markson
When in doubt, follow the truth. The path is often well-illuminated and it usually leads me in the right direction.
— David S. Brody
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
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
We always trotted everywhere at Camp Arthur Currie. I never did find out who Currie was, but he must have been a trackman.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
— 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
(Art is) the residue of vision.
— Alberto Giacometti