He [Alberto Giacometti] found it great fun to walk with crutches, and when these became almost inconveniently superfluous, he adopted a cane, to which he obstinately clung for almost eight years, though it was never physically indispensable, seeming, indeed, so nearly an affectation or so much the symbol of an infirmity lodged in his imagination rather than his foot that his own mother irritably admonished him to set it aside. He refused.

James Lord