The artist who destroyed his sculptures every morning
Creating art wasn't a joyful process for Alberto Giacometti; it was a nightly existential crisis. The Swiss sculptor would furiously mold his iconic, incredibly skinny figures out of clay all night long in a manic frenzy. Then, entirely unsatisfied, he would violently smash them to pieces just before dawn, forcing himself to start all over again the next evening.

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