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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.
Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
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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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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 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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A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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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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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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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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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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Color deceives continuously.
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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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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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