Author: Josef Albers

Quotes

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

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

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

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

Instead 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.

Instead 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.

- 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

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