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

— 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)

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

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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