Accidents Quote by Josef Albers

We never really perceive what color is physically!

— Josef Albers

I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

— Josef Albers

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

— Josef Albers

If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be…

— Josef Albers

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

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

— Josef Albers

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

— Josef Albers

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

— Josef Albers

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

— Josef Albers

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

In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

— Josef Albers

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

— Josef Albers