Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. — Quoted

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“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.”

Josef Albers · Nature

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Josef Albers

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

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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 it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

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Josef Albers

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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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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