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.
A thing is never seen as it really is. - Josef Albers
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
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…
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
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 …
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. - Josef Albers
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually. - Josef Albers
In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.
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
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…
The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it. - Josef Albers
The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.
I prefer to see with closed eyes. - Josef Albers
I prefer to see with closed eyes.
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