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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.
Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
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A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
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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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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
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Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
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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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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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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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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.
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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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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 paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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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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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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