Alberto Giacometti Quotes

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

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.

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.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

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!