German - Artist | March 19, 1888 - March 25, 1976
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Josef Albers
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In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
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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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I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
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I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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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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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
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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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Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
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As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.
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I have invented the Thermometer style.
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