Alberto Giacometti Quotes

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Two eyes see more than one.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.