Author: Alberto Giacometti

Quotes

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.

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.

- Alberto Giacometti

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

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

- Alberto Giacometti

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.

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.

- Alberto Giacometti

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

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

- Alberto Giacometti

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.

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.

- Alberto Giacometti

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