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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.
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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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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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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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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've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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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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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
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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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A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
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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 think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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