"Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate."
"Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference! "
"As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again."
"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
"If one says "Red" (the name of color) and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different."
"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."
"Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous."
"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – 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."
"I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one."
Josef Albers [German-born American Abstract Painter and Designer, 1888-1976]
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