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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
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And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
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If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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Color deceives continuously.
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The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.
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Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?
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There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.
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I start from experience and read. . .always between polarities - loud and not-loud, young and old, spring and winter. If I can make black and white behave together instead of shooting at each other only, I feel proud.
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What has been said does not simply belong to us.
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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
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A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
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