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“When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.” quote by Josef Albers — Download Open image

“When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.”

Josef Albers

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We never really perceive what color is physically!

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I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

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

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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…

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

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The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

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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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We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

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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…

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In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

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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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