Quotes by Josef Albers - Page 2

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 / Artist
Imagination
Mystery
World
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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 / Artist
Active
Father
Nonsense
Parent
Theatre
Builders
Painters
Partly
Several
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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 / Artist
Art
Air
Order
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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.
Josef Albers / Artist
Horizontal
Intensity
Lines
Old Stuff
Submit
Vertical
Leading
Suddenly
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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 / Artist
Art
Teacher
Art School
Royal
School
Teachers
Stiff
Terribly
Preparatory
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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 / Artist
Color
Names
People
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Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge.
Josef Albers / Artist
Drawing
Eye
Giving
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The aim of art is a constant, and a continuous job to reveal visually the attitude of our mentality. And the less we disturb the influence of our mentality the more I believe we come close to the truth.
Josef Albers / Artist
Art
Jobs
Attitude
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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 / Artist
Men
Mean
Thinking
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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 / Artist
Cases
Color
Different
Effects
Exercise
Fixed
Rules
Time Done Must
Basic
Continually
Discovered
Distinct
Exercises
Time New Will
Practiced
Therefore
Toward
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I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
Josef Albers / Artist
Stuck
Time Good Man
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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 / Artist
Black And White
Spring
Winter
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And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
Josef Albers / Artist
Childhood
Father
Glasses
House
Decorative
Glass
Helped
Painted
Sets
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Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
Josef Albers / Artist
Apprentice
Beginners
Secret
Tricks
Years
Beginner
Craft
Master
European
Journeyman
Secrets
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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.
Josef Albers / Artist
Accidents
Hundred
Done Always Your
Always Done Your
Falling
Hundred Years
Onto
Result
So-Called
Spoken
Thousands
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Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Josef Albers / Artist
Color
Heart
Hue
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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 / Artist
Art
Men
Thinking
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It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
Josef Albers / Artist
Appreciation
Art
Smile
Science
Concerned
Depends
Energy
Fashion
Human Behavior
Soul
Today
Behind
Metal
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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 / Artist
Art
Done
Expression
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