Josef Albers
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 AlbersOn 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 AlbersAny ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Josef AlbersAh, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef AlbersI think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
Josef AlbersThe aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
Josef AlbersIt 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 AlbersInstead 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 AlbersI love very much to draw animals.
Josef AlbersI've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
Josef AlbersI do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.
Josef AlbersI prefer to see with closed eyes.
Josef AlbersTraditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Josef Albers