Anni Albers Quotes
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Besides surface qualities, such as rough and smooth, dull and shiny, hard and soft, textiles also includes colour, and, as the dominating element, texture, which is the result of the construction of weaves. Like any craft it may end in producing useful objects, or it may rise to the level of art.
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To work with threads seemed sissy to me. I wanted something to be conquered. But circumstances held me to threads and they won me over.
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And I find art is something that gives you something that you need for your life. Just as religion is something that you need even if you constantly find it denied today.
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There was a need for doing something new but what it looked like nobody knew.
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A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
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Most of our lives we live closed up in ourselves, with a longing not to be alone, to include others in that life that is invisible and intangible. To make it visible and tangible, we need light and material, any material. And any material can take on the burden of what had been brewing in our consciousness or subconsciousness, in our awareness or in our dreams.
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Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
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Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.