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

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. — Josef Albers

I love very much to draw animals. — Josef Albers

There is no punishment man can bring down on another man's head more powerful than forgiveness — K.R. Albers

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. — Josef Albers

Changing what you eat isn't going to help unless you start managing your stress level, — Susan Albers

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience. — Josef Albers

I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel. — Josef Albers

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator. — Josef Albers

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. — Josef Albers

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

What has been said does not simply belong to us. — Josef Albers

Change is a constant machine, but not one designed by human hands.
from changeING — K.R. Albers

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference! — Josef Albers

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide. — Josef Albers

Art problems are problems of human relationship. — Josef Albers

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god. — Josef Albers

Every man can change, no matter how long it takes;
patience and persistence. — K.R. Albers

I was for years in the yellow period, you know. — Josef Albers

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

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions. — Josef Albers

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT. — Josef Albers

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision. — Josef Albers

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials. — Anni Albers

I only wear suits to funerals and I only cash checks when the bank is about to take the house.
from surely he's dead by now — K.R. Albers

The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world. — Josef Albers

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. — Josef Albers

I prefer to see with closed eyes. — Josef Albers

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends. — Josef Albers

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. — Josef Albers

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

It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in. — Josef Albers

A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know. — Anni Albers

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see. — Josef Albers

One line plus one line results in many meanings. — Josef Albers

I have invented the Thermometer style. — Josef Albers

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness. — Josef Albers

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

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. — Josef Albers

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations. — Josef Albers

We were born for sorrow
we were born for pain
we were born for loss
but we were also born to love
from follow your heart — K.R. 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

Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical? — Josef Albers

Calm Down
what happens
happens mostly
without you. — Josef Albers

A thing is never seen as it really is. — Josef Albers

Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate. — Josef Albers

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. — Josef Albers

Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous. — Josef Albers

I felt a lot better; not being alone in being alone. — K.R. Albers

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers

I worry that independence will never feel safe again. — K.R. Albers