List of Alberto Giacometti Quotes

It Was Always Disappointing To See That What I Could Really Master In Terms Of Form Boiled Down To So Little.

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.

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.

When I See A Head From A Great Distance, It Ceases To Be A Sphere And Becomes An Extreme Confusion Falling Down Into The Abyss.

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.

Only Reality Interests Me Now And I Know I Could Spend The Rest Of My Life In Copying A Chair.

I've Been Fifty Thousand Times To The Louvre. I Have Copied Everything In Drawing, Trying To Understand.

Taste For Things Of The Past Evolves, Doesn't It? What Was A Masterpiece A Hundred Years Ago Is No Longer So Today.

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!

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.

In A Fire, Between A Rembrandt And A Cat, I Would Save The Cat.

Whores Are The Most Honest Girls. They Present The Bill Right Away.