I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. Josef Albers More Quotes by Josef Albers More Quotes From Josef Albers Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. Josef Albers educationappreciationinspirational 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 illusioncolorperception 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 doneexpressionart 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 colornamespeople We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. Josef Albers colormotivationalart Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous. Josef Albers pebblesdepthrubies 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 menartthinking 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 menmeanthinking I prefer to see with closed eyes. Josef Albers closed-eyesperceptioneye 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 mysteryimaginationworld 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 colordifferentexercise In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually. Josef Albers colorlightorder Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. Josef Albers abstract-artabstractionreal Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference! Josef Albers differencescolorcooking 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 saltsquaresmen There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations. Josef Albers inventiondifferencesart The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world. Josef Albers rolesattitudeart The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it. Josef Albers purpose-of-artpurposeart 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 philosophypeopleart I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. Josef Albers ethicsmaymen
