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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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Color deceives continuously.
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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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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?
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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 want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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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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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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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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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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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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Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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