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"Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better."
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
"Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach the edge. Then be kind and rewind."
"Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man."
"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."
Explore more quotes by Josef Albers
"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting."
"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible."
"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."
"I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time."
"The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically."
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