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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.
Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
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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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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
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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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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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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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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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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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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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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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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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What has been said does not simply belong to us.
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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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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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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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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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