All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces. . . … - Alberto Giacometti

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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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.

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(Art is) the residue of vision.

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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.

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I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

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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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When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

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