Josef Albers Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.”

“When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.”

“You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.”

“When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.”

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

“I love very much to draw animals.”

“I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.”