«Whether you think you can, or you think you can't; you're right» Henry Ford once said to describe the importance of attitude towards
achieving results, and the world ought to listen; the
great American inventor certainly knew a few
things about success.
Albers worked in a discipline traditionally viewed as feminine, she was a student and ardent admirer of South
American weaving, thought of as a niche interest in the US («I will be accused of crass one - sidedness in my feeling of awe for the textile arts of Peru») and she was married to Josef Albers, who
achieved great fame as a painter in the post-war era ---- all these
things perhaps contributed to her relative neglect towards the end of the twentieth century.