Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction. - Alberto Giacometti

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.

There was a third element in reality that concerned me: movement.