Alberto Giacometti Quotes

Alberto Giacometti — Swiss Sculptor born on October 10, 1901, died on January 11, 1966

Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia, as the eldest of four children to Giovanni Giacometti, a well-known post-Impressionist painter. Coming from an artistic background, he was interested in art from an early age... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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

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 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 Quotes

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