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Josef Albers quotes

Deutsch Artist March 19, 1888 – March 26, 1976

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Josef Albers quote: "I love very much to draw animals."
I love very much to draw animals. Josef Albers
Josef Albers quote: "It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was..."
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. Josef Albers
Josef Albers quote: "I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends."
I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends. Josef Albers
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. Josef Albers
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
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
Josef Albers quote: "Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature."
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. Josef Albers
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
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see. Josef Albers
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. Josef Albers
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. Josef Albers
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know. Josef Albers
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. Josef Albers
Josef Albers quote: "Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it..."
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely. Josef Albers
Josef Albers quote: "I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see."
I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see. Josef Albers

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