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Swiss baker and café owner (1834-1933); father of the painter Giovanni Giacometti, grandfather of the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti
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“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.”
“Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.”
“That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.”
“A little after I started to do sculpture, I painted some of them, and then I destroyed them all. I've begun again several times. In 1951, I painted a whole series of sculptures. But in painting them, you see what the form lacks. And it's useless to paint over something that you don't believe in. I tried again a month ago. In painting them, the deficiencies of form came through.”
“Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away. The others hang on and never let go.”
“One starts by seeing the person who poses, but little by little all the possible sculptures of him intervene... The more real a real vision of him disappears, the stranger his head becomes.”
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