Alberto Giacometti
Biography
Quotes
- 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.
- All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
- That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.