All Josef Albers Quotes
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
Josef Albers
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I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
Josef Albers
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Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Josef Albers
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My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
Josef Albers
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Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Josef Albers
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It 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. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
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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.
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I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
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The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
Josef Albers
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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
Josef Albers
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