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Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

Josef Albers

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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
Artist
Designer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
University Teacher
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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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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
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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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Color deceives continuously.
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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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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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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What has been said does not simply belong to us.
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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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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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Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
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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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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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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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Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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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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The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
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