Alberto Giacometti Quotes

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.

There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost in this wilderness of mechanical reproduction for many years, I do not know which world to start with. I have seen fellow artists driven to the point of frenzy by photography.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

I believe in art.

I wanted to be a painter.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.