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Top 30 Alberto Giacometti Quotes (2025 Update)

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and – instead of giving up – you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling – be it an illusion or not – that something new has opened up.”

1. “The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and – instead of giving up – you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling – be it an illusion or not – that something new has opened up.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”

2. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.”

3. “In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.”

4. “In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.”

5. “The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.”

— Alberto Giacometti

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

6. “That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.”

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

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “The form is always the measure of the obsession.”

8. “The form is always the measure of the obsession.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.”

9. “The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.”

10. “If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.”

12. “It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?”

13. “If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.”

14. “Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.”

15. “At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.”

16. “I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.”

17. “I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.”

18. “The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.”

19. “The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn’t care.”

21. “When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn’t care.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.”

22. “All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.”

23. “When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.”

24. “When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “I’ve tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!”

25. “I’ve tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.”

26. “What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn’t it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.”

27. “Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn’t it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don’t think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.”

29. “In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don’t think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “I don’t know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can’t do what I want to do.”

30. “I don’t know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can’t do what I want to do.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.”

31. “If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.”

— Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti Quote: “It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.”

32. “It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.”

— Alberto Giacometti

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