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Josef Albers
German Artist
Born: Mar 19, 1888
Died: Mar 25, 1976
Also Art Me Time Very You
Related authors: Albert Oehlen Albrecht Durer Anselm Kiefer Hans Hofmann Kathe Kollwitz Maria Sibylla Merian Martin Kippenberger Rudolf Arnheim
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 Perception Seen Medium Relative Visual Physically Fact Color Never Almost Most Makes Really
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. Josef Albers
Teacher Family Me You See Safe Terrible Wanted Painter
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
You Old Submit Changes Tool See Horizontal Leading Stuff Also Came Go Lines Hand Vertical Intensity Again Straight Then Old Stuff Suddenly
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. Josef Albers
Own Carries Colors Hue Any Influences Which Ground Therefore
Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets. Josef Albers
Work You First Master Sense Other Apprentice Secrets Tricks Takes Journeyman Learn Another Go Years Beginner Craft Then European
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
Art You Training School See Had Development Terribly Stiff Art School Artists Much Teachers Preparatory Royal
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
Time Good Me Man Big Before Stuck Had Studied He Name Know Academy Also Interest Then Who
I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator. Josef Albers
Talker
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
Today Art Fashion You Appreciation Soul Science Behavior Energy See Concerned Because Metal Same Behind Human Depends Human Behavior Now
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
You Theatre Father Parents Active Several Know Also Partly Builders Nonsense Were Very Them Painters
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
Government Obligation Job Our Direct Had Stick Got Were Years Five Seminary Teaching

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