Josep Albers - click name for artist biography
· I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.
-Josef Albers
· Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
-Josef Albers
· In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.
-Josef Albers
· The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world. And I think I've said before that there is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations. That's the same I think. And scientists can be just as creative as an artist.
-Josef Albers
· Well, I would say the aim of art is a constant, and a continuous job to reveal visually the attitude of our mentality. And the less we disturb the influence of our mentality the more I believe we come close to the truth.
-Josef Albers
· Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
-Josef Albers
· In order to make a resume, the meaning of art is: learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it. Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
-Josef Albers
· I have also come to the conclusion that the square is a human invention, which makes it sympathetic to me. Because you don't see it in nature. As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt. We know this because we can see it in the microscope.
-Josef Albers
· Art problems are problems of human relationship.
-Josef Albers
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