Alberto Giacometti Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Alberto Giacometti

  Inspirational, Motivational, Photography

  Herbert C. Lust, Alberto Giacometti, Aprile Gallant, Portland Museum of Art (2000). “Alberto Giacometti”

• All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Fashion, Art, Past

• 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

  Art, Quality, Impossible

  "Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets". Book by Joel Shatzky, ‎Michael Taub, p. 302, 1999.

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

  Alberto Giacometti

  Art, People, Needs

• (Art is) the residue of vision.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Art, Vision, Art Is

• 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

  Art, Memories, Past

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin