"All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.“


-Alberto Giacometti

posted in failure


All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"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

artView Quote
"How sweet it is!"

-Jackie Gleason

migrate3View Quote
"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."

-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

migrate3View Quote
"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."

-Laurence J. Peter

migrate3View Quote
"I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic."

-Will Estes

migrate3View Quote
"Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do."

-Anna Held

migrate3View Quote

More Quotes About failure

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"

-Aldrich Ames

failureView Quote
"There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit."

-Craig Breedlove

failureView Quote
"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."

-Tony Richardson

failureView Quote
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

-Edward Eggleston

failureView Quote
"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."

-Arthur C. Danto

failureView Quote
"Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life."

-Michael Savage

failureView Quote