55 Quotes by Alberto Giacometti

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

tout le monde sait ce que c'est une tête

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.