Josef Albers
Artist
1888-03-19
Quotes by Josef Albers
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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
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I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
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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.
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Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
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I have invented the Thermometer style.
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When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.
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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.
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