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

—  Josef Albers

Quote from: 'Albers Paints a Picture' Elaine de Kooning, Art News 49, November 1950, p. 40; as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 67

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German-American artist and educator 1888–1976

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