Josef Albers Quotes

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• Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

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  Color, Perception, Illusion

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• Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

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  Art, Art Is, Objects

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• If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.

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  Color, Names, People

  "Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition".

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

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  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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

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  Light, Order, Color

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.15, Yale University Press

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• Art 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 literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.

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  Art, Expression, Done

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• I prefer to see with closed eyes.

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  Eye, Perception, Closed Eyes

  Arts/Canada, Vol. 23, (p. 46), 1966.

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• 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.

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  Imagination, World, Mystery

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• 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 man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.

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  Art, Men, Thinking

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• Color deceives continuously.

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  Color, Deceiving

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

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  Art, Purpose, Purpose Of Art

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• To 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 qualifies man’s thinking and doing.

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  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

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  Real, Abstract Art, Abstraction

  Brenda Danilowitz, Josef Albers, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (2001). “The prints of Josef Albers: a catalogue raisonné, 1915-1976”, Hudson Hills

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

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  Motivational, Art, Color

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• 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.

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  Heart, Color, Hue

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• One line plus one line results in many meanings.

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  Lines, One Line, Results

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• A thing is never seen as it really is.

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• Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

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  Color, Differences, Cooking

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• The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.

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  Art, Attitude, Roles

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• Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

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  Depth, Rubies, Pebbles

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• There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

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  Art, Differences, Invention

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• In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

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  Creativity, Discovery, Opinion

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• 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.

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  Exercise, Color, Different

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

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  Men, May, Ethics

  Josef Albers, Paul Overy, South Bank Centre (1994). “Josef Albers: a national touring exhibition from the South Bank Centre 1994”, Centre

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• I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

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  Color, Want, Function

  "Albers Paints a Picture". Elaine de Kooning, ARTnews Magazine, Issue 49 (p. 57), November 1950; later quoted in William C. Seitz "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America" (p. 67), 1983.

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