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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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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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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 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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