Josef Albers

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I read more

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.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.