Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
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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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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.
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I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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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.
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