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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.
Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
Artist
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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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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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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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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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 have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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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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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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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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Color deceives continuously.
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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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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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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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