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“I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.”

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Josef Albers was a German-born American artist known for his contributions to color theory and visual art. His works, characterized by strict geometric forms and color studies, have had a profound impact on modern art. more

“Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.”

Art Done Information Creation Expression Art Is Concerned Performances Revelations Description Imitation Repetition Literal Factual

Author:Josef Albers

“Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.”

Art Objects Art Is

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“The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.”

Art Purpose Art Is Purpose Of Art

Author:Josef Albers

“Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.”

Color Harmony Independent Appropriate Quantity

Book:Interaction of Color

Source: Interaction of Color

“Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!”

Differences Color Cooking Cooks Salt

Author:Josef Albers

“Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.”

Heart Shows Influence Color Painting Experiments Curious Carrie Phenomenon Contrast Hue Simultaneous

Author:Josef Albers

“Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.”

Knows Easy Depth Diamond Miraculous Pebbles Rubies

Author:Josef Albers

“I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.”

Thinking Men Way Firsts Art Two Self Secret Opinion Color Self Realization Realization Behave Intimate Reports Parallels Disclosure Relationships With Others

Author:Josef Albers

“I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.”

Way Paint Spread

Author:Josef Albers

“As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.”

Theory Conspiracy

Book:Buried Secrets

Source: Buried Secrets

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