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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.
Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
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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 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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Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
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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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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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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As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.
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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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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
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Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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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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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
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Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
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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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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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Color deceives continuously.
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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge.
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