"What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space."

"In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualiti…"

"Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction."

"There was a third element in reality that concerned me: movement."

"That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it."

"And then the wish to make compositions with figures. For this I had to make (quickly I thought; in passing), one or t…"

"A little after I started to do sculpture, I painted some of them, and then I destroyed them all. I've begun again sev…"

"Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away. The others hang on and never let go."

"One starts by seeing the person who poses, but little by little all the possible sculptures of him intervene... The m…"

"It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to …"