Alberto Giacometti Quotes

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.