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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
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Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
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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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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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Color deceives continuously.
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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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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
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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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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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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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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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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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What has been said does not simply belong to us.
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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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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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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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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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