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

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If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

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

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

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

— Alberto Giacometti

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