Josef Albers
I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.Collection: Color
A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.Collection: Paint
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.Collection: Spring
Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.Collection: Independent
I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.Collection: Way
What has been said does not simply belong to us.Collection: Doe
As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Art
Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.Collection: Art
Repeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore influences.Collection: Color
Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.Collection: Art
Art problems are problems of human relationship.Collection: Art
Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?Collection: Color
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.Collection: Eye
It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.Collection: 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.Collection: Art
We never really perceive what color is physically!Collection: Color