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

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

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

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

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
Alberto Giacometti

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

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