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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

Josef Albers

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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
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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 was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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Color deceives continuously.
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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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The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
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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 prefer to see with closed eyes.
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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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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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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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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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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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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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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 painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
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