Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacomettiwas a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia, as the eldest of four children to Giovanni Giacometti, a well-known post-Impressionist painter. Coming from an artistic background, he was interested in art from an early age...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth10 October 1901
CityBorgonovo, Switzerland
CountrySwitzerland
Alberto Giacometti quotes about
The form is always the measure of the obsession.
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.