Josef Albers

I love very much to draw animals. ↗

— Josef Albers

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I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends. ↗

— Josef Albers

#i #i think #near #think #very

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

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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. ↗

— Josef Albers

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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god. ↗

— Josef Albers

#god #italy #likewise #now #scientist

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

#art #color #fact #makes #medium

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

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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. ↗

— Josef Albers

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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

#also #builders #father #know #nonsense

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich. ↗

— Josef Albers

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