Josef Albers Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

  Josef Albers

  Heart, Painting, Curious

• And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

  Josef Albers

  Father, Glasses, House

• 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

  Heart, Color, Hue

• Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge.

  Josef Albers

  Eye, Drawing, Giving

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