· The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
- Alberto Giacometti
· My colleagues admonish me, 'paint with colors!' Isn't gray a color, too? If I see everything in gray, if within that gray I see all the colors that impress me and that I would like to convey, why should I use another color?
- 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.
- Alberto Giacometti
· The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.
-Alberto Giacometti
· All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces.. So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
- Alberto Giacometti
· Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- 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.
- Alberto Giacometti
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