His true talent lay in the correctness of proportions… Diego who went to neither museums nor gallery exhibitions, hit upon antique, eternal forms by instinct, conferring on them a new nobility. His forms are not reminiscences of the past, as some have supposed, these are original creations, occasionally inspired by chance.
(Daniel Marchesseau, Diego Giacometti, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, P.65)