Josef Albers Quotes - Page 2

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• Art problems are problems of human relationship.

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  Art, Problem, Humans

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• I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

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  Color, Want, Function

  "Albers Paints a Picture". Elaine de Kooning, ARTnews Magazine, Issue 49 (p. 57), November 1950; later quoted in William C. Seitz "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America" (p. 67), 1983.

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• Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

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  Art, Believe, Mean

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• I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

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  Way, Taught, Students

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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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  Men, May, Ethics

  Josef Albers, Paul Overy, South Bank Centre (1994). “Josef Albers: a national touring exhibition from the South Bank Centre 1994”, Centre

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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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  Art, Philosophy, People

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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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  Men, Squares, Salt

  Oral history interview with Sevim Fesci in New Haven, Connecticut, for the "Archives of American Art," Smithsonian Institution, www.aaa.si.edu. June 22, 1968.

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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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  Art, Jobs, Attitude

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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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  Independent, Color, Harmony

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.44, Yale University Press

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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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  Spring, Black And White, Winter

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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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  Effort, Different, Honest

  "Oral history interview with Josef Albers". Interview with Sevim Fesci, New Haven, Connecticut, www.aaa.si.edu. June 22, 1968.

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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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  Art, Tradition, Historian

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• It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

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  Color, Craziness, Dishes

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• Repeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore influences.

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  Color, Hue, Influence

  "Interaction of Color".

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• I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

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  Way, Paint, Spread

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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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  Art, Creative, Secret

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• What has been said does not simply belong to us.

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  Doe, Said, Has Beens

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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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  Color, Musical, Hard

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.47, Yale University Press

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• Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

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  Heart, Painting, Curious

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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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  Appreciation, Fashion, Art

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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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  Eye, Drawing, Giving

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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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  Art, Air, Order

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• I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

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  Resonance

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• If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

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  Suicide, Way, Commit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Father, Glasses, House

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