Josef Albers Quotes

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

Josef Albers

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• I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Model
  • Illusion

• You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Building

• Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Universe
  • Focus
  • Perception

• I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.

  

  Halsey
  • Different
  • Think
  • Attention

• And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Art
  • Perception

• We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • World
  • Politics
  • Illusion

• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Literature

• It is the function of the intellect to discriminate between the true and the false-a distinction which is applicable to all objects of intellectual perception.

  

  Maimonides
  • True
  • Perception

• The nasty thing about the availability bias is that it insidiously distorts our view of the world by distorting our perception of past events and our environment.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
  • World
  • Past
  • Environment

• There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Power
  • Missing
  • Perception

• When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.

  

  Alison Weir
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

  

  Mark Zandi
  • Challenge
  • Popular
  • Perception

• There is a perception that the media is very liberal, very biased, produces fake news.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Perception
  • Fake

• The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

  

  Jim Lovell
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Star

• It worries me because it alters perception. TV, and the culture it anchors, and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.

  

  Bill McKibben
  • World
  • Real
  • Culture

• Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Law
  • Moral

• It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Reality
  • Individual
  • Perception

• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Growing
  • Order
  • Losing

• We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Food
  • Wisdom
  • Spiritual

• It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• The material world constrain us, often with gret beneficence, to see each person and thing in its time and place, its historical context. But mental life doesn't so constrain us. It is porous, open to air and light, swings forward while swaying back, scatters its stripes in all directions, and delights to find itself beached beside something invented only that morning or instead standing beside an altar from three millennia ago.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Historical
  • Directions
  • Altar

• Every perception of colour is an illusion.. ..we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

  

  Josef Albers
  • Perception
  • Illusion
  • Colour