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In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

— Josef Albers Faber Birren (1976)

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For me, abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I'll go further and say that abstraction is nearer my heart. I prefer to see with closed eyes.

The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

A painter works to formulate with or in colors.. .My paintings follow the second option.

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.

Margaret Walch (1979)

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