All Josef Albers Quotes
- Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. Abstraction
- It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or… Appreciation
- I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. Aesthetic
- In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god. Artist
- Color deceives continuously. Color
- We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. Art
- I prefer to see with closed eyes. Closed
- Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another. Alter
- I want color and form to have contradictorily functions. Color
- A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. Inspirational
- One line plus one line results in many meanings. Line
- To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and… Accident
- 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… Basic
- It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in. Color
- I was for years in the yellow period, you know. Inspirational
- Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely. Absolutely
- And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was… All
- Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or… Apprentice
- Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. Any
- I have invented the Thermometer style. Inspirational