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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

Josef Albers

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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
Artist
Designer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
University Teacher
Joseph Albers
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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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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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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
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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 have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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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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Color deceives continuously.
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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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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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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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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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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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Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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