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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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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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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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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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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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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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