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.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that color is a subjective experience, deeply tied to personal perception rather than just a physical phenomenon.
Josef Albers emphasizes the relativity of color in artistic expression, arguing that our understanding and perception of color are influenced by personal experiences and contexts rather than being purely objective. He highlights the complexity of color as a medium in art, suggesting that it transcends just its physical properties and requires interpretation from the viewerβs perspective.
In practice
In an art class discussion about the importance of color theory.
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon β 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.
People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.
You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.
Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at the same time, and I felt like their voices or something was rocking me in its bosom, holding me like a scared kid, and I opened up to that feeling-and it washed over me.
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