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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
Josef Albers
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.
Josef Albers
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
I prefer to see with closed eyes.
Josef Albers
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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Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
Josef Albers
Color deceives continuously.
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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.
Josef Albers
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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The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
Josef Albers
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef Albers
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.
Josef Albers
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Josef Albers
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Josef Albers
I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
Josef Albers
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
Josef Albers
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.
Josef Albers
A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
Josef Albers
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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