Josef Albers Quotes

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

Never believe your eyes

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Everything you see is not always real.

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

I'm obsessed with trompe l'oeil - the idea of something that is existing and is not existing.

What you get is no longer what you see.

Not seeing is half-believing.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

I appear to be a lot bigger than what I am.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.