Alberto Giacometti Quotes


The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.


Citations

Giacometti, Alberto. "Le Rêve, le Sphinx et la mort de T." Labyrinthe, no. 22-23 (December 1946). Translated and quoted in Lord, James. Giacometti: A Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985, p. 250.

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Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti
  • Born: October 10, 1901
  • Died: January 11, 1966
  • Nationality: Swiss
  • Profession: Sculptor

Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and work on his art.