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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

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Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

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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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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

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In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

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I prefer to see with closed eyes.

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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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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.

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When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

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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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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: March 19th, 1888

Died: March 26th, 1976

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