“I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.” ArtFeelingsOrderNextAirPaintPainterProphetConsiderationContemporary Art Author:Josef Albers
“There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.” ArtDifferencesInventionConclusionArt And ScienceCreativeness Author:Josef Albers
“Art problems are problems of human relationship.” HumansArtProblemHuman RelationsHuman Relationships Author:Josef Albers
“The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.” WorldHumansArtPurposeAttitudeRolesVisualizationAttitude Towards Life Author:Josef Albers
“The aim of art is a constant, and a continuous job to reveal visually the attitude of our mentality. And the less we disturb the influence of our mentality the more I believe we come close to the truth.” BelieveArtJobsI BelieveAttitudeInfluenceArt IsAimConstantRevelationsMentality Author:Josef Albers
“Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.” BelieveMeanArtVisionHave Faith Author:Josef Albers
“It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.” HumansArtSoulTodayEnergyBehindsFashionDependsBehaviorArt IsConcernedAppreciationMetalsHuman Behavior Author:Josef Albers
“We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.” ArtFactsMotivationalColorMediumsPerceiveRelativeVisual Perception Author:Josef Albers
“Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.” ArtProcessSecretCreativeCreative ProcessThey Are All The Same Author:Josef Albers
“Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.” ArtDoneInformationCreationExpressionArt IsConcernedPerformancesRevelationsDescriptionImitationRepetitionLiteralFactual Author:Josef Albers
“The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.” ArtPurposeArt IsPurpose Of Art Author:Josef Albers
“I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.” ThinkingMenWayFirstsArtTwoSelfSecretOpinionColorSelf RealizationRealizationBehaveIntimateReportsParallelsDisclosureRelationships With Others Author:Josef Albers
“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.” PeopleArtPhilosophyBigsTaughtPaintTechnique Author:Josef Albers
“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.” ArtSchoolArtistTeacherDevelopmentTrainingRoyalArt SchoolArt Teacher Author:Josef Albers
“Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.” ArtArt IsTraditionHistorianLooking BackRevive Author:Josef Albers
