Alberto Giacometti Quote

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 (1945), as cited in: Joel Shatzky, Michael Taub (1999), Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets. p. 302


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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...