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.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that color is a subjective experience, deeply tied to personal perception rather than just a physical phenomenon.
Josef Albers emphasizes the relativity of color in artistic expression, arguing that our understanding and perception of color are influenced by personal experiences and contexts rather than being purely objective. He highlights the complexity of color as a medium in art, suggesting that it transcends just its physical properties and requires interpretation from the viewerβs perspective.
In practice
In an art class discussion about the importance of color theory.
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon β it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty.
What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.
If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere.
I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.
I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'
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