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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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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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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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