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
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
—Alberto Giacometti
Topics: Art
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
—Alberto Giacometti
That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
—Alberto Giacometti
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Auguste Rodin French Sculptor
Hermann Hesse Swiss Novelist, Poet
Johann Kaspar Lavater Swiss Theologian, Poet
Karl Barth Swiss Protestant Theologian
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Swiss Poet
Henri Frederic Amiel Swiss Philosopher, Writer
Jean-Jacques Rousseau French Philosopher
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Swiss Educator
Carl Gustav Jung Swiss Psychologist
Jean-luc Godard French-born Swiss Film Director