One starts by seeing the person who poses, but little by little all the possible sculptures of him intervene... The more real a real vision of him di… - Alberto Giacometti

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One starts by seeing the person who poses, but little by little all the possible sculptures of him intervene... The more real a real vision of him disappears, the stranger his head becomes.

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About Alberto Giacometti

(10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker.

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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.

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