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Josef Albers


German
March 19, 1888
Artist
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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.


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


Josef Albers
Tags: Just Very Heart
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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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Tags: God Now Artist
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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Tags: You Man Should
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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Tags: Science Same Art
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
Josef Albers
Tags: Really Our Never
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.
Josef Albers
Tags: You Had Much
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.
Josef Albers
Tags: Time Will Never
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.
Josef Albers