Josef Albers Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Josef Albers quotes and sayings page 2 (artist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 32 we have.

“I prefer to see with closed eyes.”

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

“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.”

“When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.”

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

“I have invented the Thermometer style.”

“I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.”

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

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

“As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.”