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The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
Artist
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Joseph Albers
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Attitude
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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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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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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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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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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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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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Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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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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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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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 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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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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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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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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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