German - Artist | March 19, 1888 - March 25, 1976
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
Josef Albers
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I love very much to draw animals.
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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
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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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I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
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I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.
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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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If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
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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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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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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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