Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. – Josef Albers
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. – Josef Albers
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. – Josef Albers
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. – Josef Albers
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely. – Josef Albers
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 its energy. Its the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see. – Josef Albers
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. – Wislawa Szymborska