Josef Albers Quotes

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

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.

Color cannot stand alone.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.

In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic.

I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Black is not a color.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

We never really perceive what color is physically!

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.