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Amateurism is an emptiness and I accept it because it has no preconceived ideas or rules to be applied. This is for me [as art teacher] a most welcome situation and I like to keep my students amateurs and dilettantes.

— Josef Albers A conversation with Josef Albers (1970)

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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.

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

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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

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

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