Josef AlbersWe never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.371Truth
Josef AlbersAs 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 cas… ▶341Time
Josef AlbersEasy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.311Truth
Josef AlbersI have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.378Love
Josef AlbersRepeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore influences. ✨ Interaction of Col… ▶302Philosophy
Josef AlbersWe never really perceive what color is physically!368Time
Josef AlbersLearn 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.293Life
Josef AlbersI've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. ✨ Josef Albers, Paul Overy, South Bank Centre (1994). Josef Albers… ▶271Reflection
Josef AlbersSimultaneous 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 it… ▶305LoveSadness
Josef AlbersArt is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with lit… ▶283Truth
Josef AlbersColor deceives continuously.317Humanity
Josef AlbersI have invented the Thermometer style.274Sadness
Josef AlbersIt's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.3310Time
Josef AlbersIn order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually. ✨ Josef Albers (2006). Interaction of Color, p.15, Yale University Press329Thought
Josef AlbersI think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-… ▶3210LifeThought
Josef AlbersIndependent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate. ✨ Josef Albers (2006). Interaction of Col… ▶308Reflection
Josef AlbersIn Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.242Politics
Josef AlbersColor is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!243Humor
Josef AlbersIt is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is… ▶3110Humanity
Josef AlbersWhen we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.276Politics
Josef AlbersTo 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. Therefore it signifies a human need and… ▶288HumanityThought
Josef AlbersI want color and form to have contradictorily functions. ✨ Albers Paints a Picture. Elaine de Kooning, ARTnews Magazine, Issue 49 (p. 57), November 1950; later quoted in Wil… ▶2910Sadness
Josef AlbersSimultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.212LoveSadness
Josef AlbersI count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.224Time
Josef AlbersI paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.257ReadingSadness
Josef AlbersThe purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.2810Time
Josef AlbersI think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.204Thought
Josef AlbersInstead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.248HumanityPhilosophySadness
Josef AlbersAbstraction is real, probably more real than nature. ✨ Brenda Danilowitz, Josef Albers, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (2001). The prints of Josef Albers: a catalogue rais… ▶237Hope
Josef AlbersThus art is not an object, it is an experience.161Life
