“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
Alberto Giacometti è stato uno scultore, pittore e incisore svizzero.
“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 (1945), as cited in: Joel Shatzky, Michael Taub (1999), Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets. p. 302
Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago [and others], distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20
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.
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
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
Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago [and others], distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 26
“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
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