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 viewer’s perspective.
In practice
In an art class discussion about the importance of color theory.
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.
What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.
The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
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