Paper is usually pasted; instead of pasting it we try to tie it, to pin it, to sew it, to rivet it. In other words, we fasten it in a multitude of different ways . . . Our aim is not so much to work differently as to work without copying or repeating others. We try to experiment, to train ourselves in “constructive thinking.”
JOSEF ALBERS, quoted in
Herbert Bayer, Bauhaus Weimar 1919–1925 (1975)