Josef Albers Quotes & Sayings
32 most famous Josef Albers quotes and sayings (artist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.”
“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.”
“Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.”
“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.”
“Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.”
“I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.”
“If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.”
“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.”
“I was for years in the yellow period, you know.”
“It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.”
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