We never really perceive what color is physically! Josef Albers More Quotes by Josef Albers More Quotes From Josef Albers Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical? Josef Albers hard musical color I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air. Josef Albers air order art I start from experience and read. . .always between polarities - loud and not-loud, young and old, spring and winter. If I can make black and white behave together instead of shooting at each other only, I feel proud. Josef Albers black-and-white winter spring One line plus one line results in many meanings. Josef Albers one-line results lines 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. Josef Albers theatre parent father A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. Josef Albers painter paint If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide. Josef Albers commit suicide way I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see. Josef Albers resonance I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel. Josef Albers spread paint way I love very much to draw animals. Josef Albers draws animal I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator. Josef Albers talkers 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. Josef Albers teacher art school I was for years in the yellow period, you know. Josef Albers periods yellow years 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. Josef Albers teaching jobs years What has been said does not simply belong to us. Josef Albers has-beens doe said Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT. Josef Albers art-is concerned art A thing is never seen as it really is. Josef Albers I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends. Josef Albers kandinsky thinking I have invented the Thermometer style. Josef Albers thermometers style Color deceives continuously. Josef Albers deceiving color
