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.
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The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.Josef Albers
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When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.
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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.
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
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I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.
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