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

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In Every Work Of Art The Subject

Alberto Giacometti

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.

Topic

Art

Quality

Impossible

The Human Face Is As Strange To Me As A Countenance, Which, The More One Looks At It, The More It Closes Itself Off And Escapes By The Steps Of Unknown Stairways.

Looks

Faces

Steps