Alberto Giacometti
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“Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.”
“In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.”
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“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”
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“If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.”
“I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.”
Source: Alberto Giacometti: Castello di Rivoli, 6 dicembre 1988-26 febbraio 1989
“In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.”
“When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.”
“Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.”