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Alberto Giacometti
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“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 (1901–1966) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alberto Giacometti (1945), as cited in: Joel Shatzky, Michael Taub (1999), Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets. p. 302
“Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.”
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alberto Giacometti. Exhibition of sculptures, paintings, drawings. Pierre Matisse Gallery (New York, N.Y.), 1948. p. 36
“There was a third element in reality that concerned me: movement.”
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.”
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alberto Giacometti in: James Lord (1965), Giacometti Portrait, p. 11-12; as cited in: James Olney (1998), Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing. p. 331
“And then the wish to make compositions with figures. For this I had to make (quickly I thought; in passing), one or two studies from nature, just enough to understand the construction of a head, of a whole figure, and in 1935 I took a model. This study should take, I thought, two weeks and then I could realize my compositions...I worked with the model all day from 1935 to 1940...Nothing was as I imagined. A head, became for me an object completely unknown and without dimensions.”
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alberto Giacometti in: , Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago [and others], distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 26
“A little after I started to do sculpture, I painted some of them, and then I destroyed them all. I've begun again several times. In 1951, I painted a whole series of sculptures. But in painting them, you see what the form lacks. And it's useless to paint over something that you don't believe in. I tried again a month ago. In painting them, the deficiencies of form came through.”
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alberto Giacometti in: Paul Auster (trans.) "My life is reduced to nothing: David Sylvester talks to Alberto Giacometti about his struggle with proportion and the difficulties of making an eye," theguardian.com, 21 June…
“Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away. The others hang on and never let go.”
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited in: Kay Larson, "The thin man," New York Magazine, 7 October 1985, p. 70
“One starts by seeing the person who poses, but little by little all the possible sculptures of him intervene... The more real a real vision of him disappears, the stranger his head becomes.”
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited in: Kay Larson, "The thin man," New York Magazine, 7 October 1985, p. 70