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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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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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What has been said does not simply belong to us.
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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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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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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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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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Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
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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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The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
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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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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 want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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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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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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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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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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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
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A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
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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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