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Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.

— Alberto Giacometti

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

Alberto Giacometti in: James Lord (1965)

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

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.

There was a third element in reality that concerned me: movement.

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 (1945)

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