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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.
Josef Albers
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Josef Albers
Age: 88 †
Born: 1888
Born: March 19
Died: 1976
Died: March 25
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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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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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Color deceives continuously.
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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
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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 paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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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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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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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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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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A thing is never seen as it really is.
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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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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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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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