A thing is never seen as it really is.

- Josef Albers

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore…

- Josef Albers

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

- Josef Albers

If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can …

- Josef Albers

Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always wil…

- Josef Albers

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

- Josef Albers

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

- Josef Albers

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

- Josef Albers

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

- Josef Albers