Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated … - Josef Albers

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Josef Albers

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.

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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

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Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

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Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.

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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.

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Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

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