"A Giacometti Portrait" Quotes

I admire the way you paint, as if you were sculpting the figure in the paint.

It's not easy to find the exact truth of a person's appearance.

I'm not interested in the individual, but in the humanity of the individual.

Art is a means of expression and not an end in itself.

Every artist has his own gimmick; mine is to paint what I see.

The longer one looks, the more there is to see.

I'm interested only in the present. The future does not concern me; it will be whatever it turns out to be.

The act of drawing is an act of capturing the essential.

I work as if I were a machine. I don't think, I work.

To make a portrait, one must take time and look, and then look again.