"Beauty has no other origin than that of a wound, singular, different for each individual, hidden or visible, that everyone keeps within, that we preserve, and to which we withdraw when we want to leave the world for a temporary but profound solitude. This art is therefore far from what we call miserabilism. Giacometti's art seems to me to wish to discover the secret wound of any being and even that of any thing, in order to illuminate them.?"
Jean Genet, "L'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti", 1958.
