Alberto Giacometti

The form is everything.

Life is a constant struggle against the void.

I paint and sculpt what I see, not what I know.

The obsession with the figure never leaves me.

In every work, I start over from zero.

The world is full of holes that need filling.

My figures are prisoners of space.

I seek the essential, the irreducible.

Art is a solitary path.

The line is the purest expression.

I destroy to create.

Man is alone in the universe.

Every sculpture is a failure, but a necessary one.

The gaze is what matters most.

I am haunted by the human form.

Space devours the figure.

Creation is endless torment.

The artist must strip away the superfluous.

My work is a cry against oblivion.

The hand follows the eye.