Josef Albers Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

  Josef Albers

  Father, Glasses, House

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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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  Years, Secret, Beginners

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

  Josef Albers

  Years, Yellow, Periods

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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.

  Josef Albers

  Father, Parent, Theatre

  "Oral history interview with Josef Albers". Interview with Sevim Fesci, New Haven, Connecticut, www.aaa.si.edu. June 22, 1968.

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• In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

  Josef Albers

  Artist, Individualism, Scientist

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• It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

  Josef Albers

  Teacher, Safe, My Family

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• When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

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  Jobs, Teaching, Years

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• I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

  Josef Albers

  Talkers

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• I love very much to draw animals.

  Josef Albers

  Animal, Draws

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• I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

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  Teacher, Art, School

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• I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.

  Josef Albers

  Thinking, Kandinsky

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• I have invented the Thermometer style.

  Josef Albers

  Style, Thermometers

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