being deeply moved, without knowing it (10 October 2016)

Gordon Parks, Untitled [Alberto Giacometti], Paris, France, 1951

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).

- Alberto Giacometti

Giacometti in his Paris studio


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.

- Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti, Pointing Man, 1947

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

Alberto Giacometti, Le Chat, 1954