Josef Albers Quotes

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down the fact of it. I wanted it to be the same thing he wanted it to be, an open ended invitation to think about authorship, and who owns a created work. So I pair it with my appropriated picture.

My parents telling me that if there is a story you feel compelled to share, then you are responsible for doing that. You can't ask someone else to take on that story - or you can, but you have to deal with whatever the fallout is. If the story doesn't end up being told the way you originally heard it or that you feel it needs to be expressed, that's on you.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch.

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

What if my words Were meant for deeds.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.