Josef Albers
Josef Albers
Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the twentieth century...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth19 March 1888
CountryGermany
style thermometers
I have invented the Thermometer style.
years secret crafts
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.
way paint spread
I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
color craziness dishes
It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
teacher safe my-family
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
color musical hard
Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?
art air order
I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.
eye drawing judging
Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge...
spring black-and-white winter
I start from experience and read. . .always between polarities - loud and not-loud, young and old, spring and winter. If I can make black and white behave together instead of shooting at each other only, I feel proud.
fashion appreciation art
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
art creative secret
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
father glasses house
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.
art believe mean
Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
imagination world mystery
Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.