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I prefer to see with closed eyes.

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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
Artist
Designer
Painter
Photographer
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University Teacher
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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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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.
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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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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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When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.
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Color deceives continuously.
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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
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It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
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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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The aim of art is a constant, and a continuous job to reveal visually the attitude of our mentality. And the less we disturb the influence of our mentality the more I believe we come close to the truth.
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Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge.
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