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Inspirational Quotes by Josef Albers
- Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
- In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
- Color deceives continuously.
- I prefer to see with closed eyes.
- Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
- A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
- It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
- I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
- Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
- I have invented the Thermometer style.
- I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
- I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
- Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
- I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
- I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
- We never really perceive what color is physically!
- I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.
- I love very much to draw animals.
- When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make…
- Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?
- A thing is never seen as it really is.
- Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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