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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

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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Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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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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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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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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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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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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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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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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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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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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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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What has been said does not simply belong to us.
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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