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“One line plus one line results in many meanings.”

Quote by Josef Albers

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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

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“To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.”

Thinking Men Needs Humans Mean Order Plans Design Embrace Accidents Relate Disorder Organize Opposing Human Needs

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“As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.”

Different Done Language Cases Effects Color Exercise Fixed

Book:Interaction of Color

Source: Interaction of Color

“It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.”

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“I was for years in the yellow period, you know.”

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“Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.”

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Author:Josef Albers

“And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.”

Made Facts Father House Childhood Stage Painting Glasses Painter

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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.”

Years Firsts Secret Masters Tricks Crafts Beginners Apprentice

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“Repeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore influences.”

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Author:Josef Albers

“I have invented the Thermometer style.”

Style Thermometers

Author:Josef Albers

“I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.”

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Author:Josef Albers