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Josef Albers - From the Abstraction category:
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I prefer to see with closed eyes. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Advice category:
If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Colour category:
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Colour category:
We never really perceive what color is physically. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Colour category:
Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference! (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Colour category:
If one says 'red' - the name of color - and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Contemporary Art category:
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Contrasts category:
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Creativity category:
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Cubism category:
As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Discovery category:
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 over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again... (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Expression category:
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Harmony category:
Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Invention category:
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Mediums category:
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is – as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Morality category:
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Problems category:
Art problems are problems of human relationship. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Purpose category:
The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Questions category:
Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?' (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Revelation category:
The aim of art is a constant, and a continuous job to reveal visually the attitude of our mentality. And the less we disturb the influence of our mentality the more I believe we come close to the truth. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Seeing category:
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Teaching category:
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Tradition category:
Traditionally, art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Vision category:
Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision. (Josef Albers)
Josef Albers - From the Wonder category:
Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it. (Josef Albers)
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