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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

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 thing is never seen as it really is.
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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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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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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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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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Color deceives continuously.
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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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A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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