Quotes Josef Albers

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature....

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it...

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childh...

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it ca...

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a c...

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, ...

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

I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not imp...

I have invented the Thermometer style....

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical w...

I love very much to draw animals....

I prefer to see with closed eyes....

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

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school...

I was for years in the yellow period, you know....

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a ...

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator....

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude...

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide....

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, th...

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it real...

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique fo...

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerne...

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was sa...

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders...