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Color Quotes by Josef Albers
- Color deceives continuously.
- We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
- Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
- I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
- 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…
- It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
- Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
- Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
- Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!
- Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that…
- I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like…
- In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.
- We never really perceive what color is physically!
- If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty…
- Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?
- In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative…
- The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color…
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