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Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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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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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 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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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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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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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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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 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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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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Color deceives continuously.
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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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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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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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Learn to see and to feel life that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.
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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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