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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.
Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
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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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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 paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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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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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
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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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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
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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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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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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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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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The aim of art is a constant, and a continuous job to reveal visually the attitude of our mentality. And the less we disturb the influence of our mentality the more I believe we come close to the truth.
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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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Color deceives continuously.
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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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