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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 painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
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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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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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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 prefer to see with closed eyes.
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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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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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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
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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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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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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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