Alberto Giacometti Quotes

Switzerland, Sculptor
October 10, 1901 – January, 11, 1966.

Alberto Giacometti (Italian pronunciation: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and work on his art.

Also known as Painter, Printmaker

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Alberto Giacometti
- Work
- Art
Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.

Alberto Giacometti

One starts by seeing the person who poses, but little by little all the possible sculptures of him intervene... The more real a real vision of him disappears, the stranger his head becomes.

Alberto Giacometti
- Real
- Vision
Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and others, distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20

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

Alberto Giacometti
- Picture
There was a third element in reality that concerned me: movement.

Alberto Giacometti
- Reality
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away. The others hang on and never let go.

Alberto Giacometti
- Present