I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. — 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
