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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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 think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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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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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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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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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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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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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A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
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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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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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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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Color deceives continuously.
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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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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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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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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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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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