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. Alberto Giacometti Read Quote
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. Alberto Giacometti Read Quote
In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don’t think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it. Alberto Giacometti Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray! Alberto Giacometti Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. Alberto Giacometti Read Quote
That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. Alberto Giacometti Read Quote
