55 Quotes by Alberto Giacometti

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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