Author: Josef Albers

Quotes

I love very much to draw animals.

I love very much to draw animals.

- Josef Albers

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

- Josef Albers

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.

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

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

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

- Josef Albers

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

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

- Josef Albers

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

- Josef Albers

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

- Josef Albers

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

- Josef Albers

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