Giacometti Artist Quotes & Sayings

Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.
"The Stealer of Souls," he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, "Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the - "
ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN. — Terry Pratchett

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die.
Kate to Will — Elizabeth Scott

I understand. Seraphim, I hope you know you have a great talent. You are a real artist. What you did in the dining room has a deep meaning. It is, no more or less than the very picture of life as it is lived by all of us poor mortals. We try to sweeten it, but the agreeable part stays on the outside because life is always bitter within. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them. — Timothy Leary

He actually made damnation seem attractive. She had heard of men who rejected gods, who professed not to believe, but here was a believer who refused to grovel, a man who stood up to Shiva, to Buddha, to the gods of his own race, whoever they might be, who stood right up to them and demanded an accounting for a system in which pleasure must be paid for with pain, a system in which the only triumph over suffering was hard-won oblivion, a system that offered its captive audience little choice in matters concerning duration of performance. — Tom Robbins

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model. — Alberto Giacometti

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me. — Ayrton Senna

I would like to have a 'Lost' clapper board with the numbers and the clock at the top. — Henry Ian Cusick

The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless — Georges Seurat

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. — Alberto Giacometti

Maybe if this had been our beginning we would have had a much different ending, but we couldn't go back in time. We couldn't change what had been done, what he had set in motion. — Angela Richardson

I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind. — Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues. — James Aldridge