Josef Albers

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.

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.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

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

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

The 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.

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.