Alberto Giacometti Impossible Quotations

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

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

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

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.