Josef Albers Quotes - Page 2

• I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

  Josef Albers

  Color, Want, Function

  "Albers Paints a Picture". Elaine de Kooning, ARTnews Magazine, Issue 49 (p. 57), November 1950; later quoted in William C. Seitz "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America" (p. 67), 1983.

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• A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

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  Paint, Painter

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• Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.

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  Independent, Color, Harmony

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.44, Yale University Press

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• Parto de la experiencia y leo. ...siempre entre polaridades: alto y no alto, joven y viejo, primavera e invierno. Si consigo que el blanco y el negro se comporten juntos en lugar de dispararse sólo el uno contra el otro, me siento orgulloso.

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  Primavera, Blanco y Negro, Invierno

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• I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

  Josef Albers

  Way, Paint, Spread

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• He manejado el color como un hombre debe comportarse. Puedes concluir que considero la ética y la estética como una sola cosa.

  Josef Albers

  Men, May, Ethics

  Josef Albers, Paul Overy, South Bank Centre (1994). “Josef Albers: a national touring exhibition from the South Bank Centre 1994”, Centre

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• What has been said does not simply belong to us.

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  Doe, Said, Has Beens

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• Como no vemos cuadrados en la naturaleza, pensé que era obra del hombre. Pero me he corregido. Porque los cuadrados existen en los cristales de sal, nuestra sal diaria.

  Josef Albers

  Men, Squares, Salt

  Oral history interview with Sevim Fesci in New Haven, Connecticut, for the "Archives of American Art," Smithsonian Institution, www.aaa.si.edu. June 22, 1968.

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• Tradicionalmente, el arte consiste en crear y no en revivir. Revivir: eso déjaselo a los historiadores, que miran hacia atrás.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Tradition, Historian

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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.

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  Art, Jobs, Attitude

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• Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

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  Arte, Creer, Significar

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

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  Art, Creative, Secret

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• Repeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore influences.

  Josef Albers

  Color, Hue, Influence

  "Interaction of Color".

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• Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Art Is, Concerned

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• Art problems are problems of human relationship.

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  Art, Problem, Humans

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• Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?

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  Color, Musical, Hard

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.47, Yale University Press

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

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  Way, Taught, Students

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• Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

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  Heart, Painting, Curious

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• No ocurre lo mismo con el arte, porque el arte se ocupa del comportamiento humano. Y la ciencia se ocupa del comportamiento del metal o de la energía. Depende de cuál sea la moda. Hoy en día es la energía. Es la misma alma la que está detrás. La misma alma, ya ves.

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  Appreciation, Fashion, Art

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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.

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  Eye, Drawing, Giving

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• It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

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  Color, Craziness, Dishes

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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.

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  Art, Air, Order

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

  Josef Albers

  Suicide, Way, Commit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We never really perceive what color is physically!

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  Color, Perceive

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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.

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  Father, Glasses, House

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