Josef Albers Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”
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“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.”
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“Art problems are problems of human relationship.”
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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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“To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.”
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“If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.”
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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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“Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!”
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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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“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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“Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.”
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“We never really perceive what color is physically!”
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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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“Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?”
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“I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.”
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“If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.”
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“In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.”
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“Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.”
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“I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.”
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“It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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 do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.”
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“A thing is never seen as it really is.”
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