Alberto Giacometti

Visual Arts Switzerland 1901 – 1966 100 quotes

Existentialist of elongated walking figures, evoking isolation.

Quotes by Alberto Giacometti

I am always trying to get closer to the invisible, but I never reach it.

Interview

The more I work, the more I am alone.

Interview

The only thing that matters is the silence.

Interview

I don't know where I am, but I am here.

Interview

The more I try, the more I am silent.

Interview

Art is a way of being silent.

Interview

The head is the void.

Interview

I want to make a sculpture that is so small it can be overlooked, and so large it can never be contained.

Interview

The more I look, the more I am silent.

Interview

The only way to see is to be silent.

Interview

The more I work, the more I want to work.

Interview 1960

All molds are broken when I start working.

Speech 1957

I work like a miner in a tunnel, without knowing where I am going.

Letter 1950

The human head is the most perfect form there is.

Interview 1948

Artistically speaking, I haven't changed at all.

Book 1965

All my life, I have been working on the same sculpture.

Interview 1966

I don't know where I am going, but I am on my way.

Letter 1955

The important thing is to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

Personal reflection 1940

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Book 1930

I am always in search of the image.

Interview 1958