Josef AlbersThinkers

Art 1s 2roblems are problems of human relationship.

Art is contrasted with science in that art is concerned with human behavior while science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy.

Art is the cultivating of vision.

Art is not an object, it is an experience.

Art is to create and not to revive: the reviving ought to be left to the historians, who are looking backward.

Art is the visualization of attitude toward life and towards the world.

Art 1s 2urpose is to re-present nature, not represent it.

Art is revelation instead of information.

Art is expression instead of description.

Art is creation instead of imitation or repetition.

Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT.

Art 1s 2ontent is not concerned with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content.

Art is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets, but rather behaves like man, first in self realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.

Color is never really physically perceptible.

Color is subjective. If one say's 'red' to fifty people, then there will be fifty reds in their minds, all very different.

Color goes or works with any color, independent of any harmony rules, if their quantities are appropriate.

Color is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music'' or 'What is musical''.

Color deceives continuously.