Quotes by Josef Albers

Josef Albers

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

Paint

Painter

A thing is never seen as it really is.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Abstract Art

Abstraction

Real

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

Art

Creative

Secret

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

Father

Glasses

House

Apprentice is the beginner – the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

Beginners

Secret

Years

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

Art

Art Is

Concerned

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.

Art

Done

Expression

Art problems are problems of human relationship.

Art

Humans

Problem

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

Color

Different

Exercise

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Abstract Art

Abstraction

Air

Animal

Appreciation

Art

Art Is

Artist

Attitude

Beginners

Believe

Black And White

Closed Eyes

Color

Commit

Concerned

Cooking

Craziness

Creative

Creativity

Curious

Deceiving

Depth

Differences

Different

Discovery

Dishes

Doe

Done

Drawing

Draws

Education

Effort

Ethics

Exercise

Expression

Eye

Fashion

Father

Function

Giving

Glasses

Hard

Harmony

Has Beens

Heart

Historian

Honest

House

Hue

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Quotes by Josef Albers

Josef Albers

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

A thing is never seen as it really is.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

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

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

Apprentice is the beginner – the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

Art problems are problems of human relationship.

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

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