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1 " If you don’t do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide. "
― Josef Albers
2 " Usually, we think of an apple as being red.This is not the same red as that of a cherry or tomato.A lemon is yellow and an orange like that of its name.Bricks vary from beige to yellow to orange,and from ochre to brown to deep violet.Foliage appears in innumerable shades of green.In all these cases the colors named are surface colors.In a very different was, distant mountains appear uniformly blue,no matter whether coveredwith green trees or consisting of earth and rocks.The sun is glaring white in daytime, but it is full red at sunset.The white ceiling of houses surrounded by lawns or the white-paintedeaves of a roof on a sunny day appear in bright green, which isreflected from the grass on the ground.All these cases present film colors.They appear as a thin, transparent, translucent layer between the eye and an object, independent of the object's surface color. "
― Josef Albers , Interaction of Color
3 " To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing. "
4 " Calm Downwhat happenshappens mostlywithout you. "
― Josef Albers , Poems and Drawings
5 " ...Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. "
6 " One line plus one line results in many meanings. "
7 " 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. "
8 " I was for years in the yellow period, you know. "
9 " I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. "
