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Alberto Giacometti Quotes: I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
         

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.


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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.



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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.



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.



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.



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The form is always the measure of the obsession.



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The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.





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