"If I had some advice to give to a young painter, I would tell him to start by copying an apple." Including the following texts by Alberto Giacometti: "Fragments of a diary" In conversation with Gotthard Jedlicka "I certainly practise painting..." "Grey, brown, black..." "Braque has just died" "Portrait of an artist" Giacometti In conversation with Alain Jouffroy "The painter's monologue" In conversation with Georges Charbonnier "I go against the flow" In conversation with Marie-Thérèse Maugis