Josef Albers Quotes

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

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

Father, Everything, Made

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

Work, Sense, Another

I prefer to see with closed eyes.
Josef Albers

Eyes, Closed, Prefer

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

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
Josef Albers

May, Ethics, Consider

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

Commit, Suggest

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
Josef Albers

Art, Fact, Makes

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

Art, Science, Today

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef Albers

Art, Science, Same

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Josef Albers

Ground, Colors, Influences

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

Time, Done, Different

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

Time, Call, Count

I have invented the Thermometer style.
Josef Albers

Style, Invented

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
Josef Albers

Rules, Students, Ways

I love very much to draw animals.
Josef Albers

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

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

Art, School, Training

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

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

Time, Good, Before

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
Josef Albers

God, Artist, Scientist

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

Art, Philosophy, Big

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
Josef Albers

Family, Teacher, Wanted

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

Father, Parents, Theatre

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.
Josef Albers

Money, Lived, Berlin

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: March 19, 1888

Died: March 26, 1976

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