Frasi di Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti è stato uno scultore, pittore e incisore svizzero.

✵ 10. Ottobre 1901 – 12. Gennaio 1966
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Alberto Giacometti Frasi e Citazioni

“In un incendio, tra un Rembrandt e un gatto, io salverei il gatto.”

Origine: Citato in Fernaldo Di Giammatteo, L'allusione e la tecnica: le inquietudini di un critico, a cura di Luca Pasquale, Cadmo, Fiesole, 2006, p. 180. ISBN 88-7923-346-7

“Le prostitute sono le uniche donne oneste che presentano il conto subito.”

Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 97, p. 190

Alberto Giacometti: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

Alberto Giacometti in: Paul Auster (trans.) " My life is reduced to nothing: David Sylvester talks to Alberto Giacometti about his struggle with proportion and the difficulties of making an eye https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2003/jun/21/art.artsfeatures1," theguardian.com, 21 June 2003.

“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.”

As cited in: Kay Larson, " The thin man https://books.google.nl/books?id=ZckBAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70," New York Magazine, 7 October 1985, p. 70
Giacometti, 1985

“That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.”

Alberto Giacometti in: James Lord (1965), Giacometti Portrait, p. 11-12; as cited in: James Olney (1998), Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing. p. 331

“Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.”

Alberto Giacometti. Exhibition of sculptures, paintings, drawings. Pierre Matisse Gallery (New York, N.Y.), 1948. p. 36

“Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away. The others hang on and never let go.”

As cited in: Kay Larson, " The thin man https://books.google.nl/books?id=ZckBAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70," New York Magazine, 7 October 1985, p. 70
Giacometti, 1985

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