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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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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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If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.
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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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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
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What has been said does not simply belong to us.
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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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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's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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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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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
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Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
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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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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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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 have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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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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