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"The world system is employment."
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do."
"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."
"I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!"
"Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it."
"Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair."
"In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it."
"All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life."
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