Josef Albers Quotes

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.

I found I have to stay painting.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also 'painterly.'

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.

I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.