As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again. — 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
