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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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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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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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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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The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
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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 prefer to see with closed eyes.
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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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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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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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