In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
From Josef Albers
Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
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.
On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
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