Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. Josef Albers More Quotes by Josef Albers More Quotes From Josef Albers Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another. Josef Albers illusion color perception Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art. Josef Albers done expression art If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different. Josef Albers color names people We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. Josef Albers color motivational art Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous. Josef Albers pebbles depth rubies I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others. Josef Albers men art thinking To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing. Josef Albers men mean thinking I prefer to see with closed eyes. Josef Albers closed-eyes perception eye Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it. Josef Albers mystery imagination world 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. Josef Albers color different exercise In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually. Josef Albers color light order Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. Josef Albers abstract-art abstraction real Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference! Josef Albers differences color cooking As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt. Josef Albers salt squares men There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations. Josef Albers invention differences art The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world. Josef Albers roles attitude art The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it. Josef Albers purpose-of-art purpose art 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 philosophy people art I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. Josef Albers ethics may men Repeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore influences. Josef Albers hue influence color
