In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference! — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Repeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
