Phrase by 'Alberto Giacometti'

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

Author: Alberto Giacometti - Swiss Sculptor
  Everything , Understand , Trying , Drawing


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.

Author: Alberto Giacometti - Swiss Sculptor
  Always , Work , Art , Artist


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

Author: Alberto Giacometti - Swiss Sculptor
  You , Look , People , Art


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

Author: Alberto Giacometti - Swiss Sculptor
  Myself , Find , Grow , Alone


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

Author: Alberto Giacometti - Swiss Sculptor
  Myself , Reality , Protect , Paint


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

Author: Alberto Giacometti - Swiss Sculptor
  More , See , Way , Impossible


Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

Author: Alberto Giacometti - Swiss Sculptor
  Me , Facts , Images , Discover


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.

Author: Alberto Giacometti - Swiss Sculptor
  Know , Work , Want , Why


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

Author: Alberto Giacometti - Swiss Sculptor
  See , Someone , Paint , I See


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.

Author: Alberto Giacometti - Swiss Sculptor
  See , I Can , Success , Failure


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