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

• Perception
• Illusion
• Colour

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Movies
  • Actors

• 'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Christ
  • Perception
  • Shift

• An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

  

  Christoph Martin Wieland
  • Happy
  • Illusion
  • Worth

• Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Language

• If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Freedom
  • Humans
  • Illusion

• The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Ugly
  • Poor
  • Nasty

• If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Moon

• The soul is an illusion.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Soul
  • Illusion

• I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Think
  • You
  • Word

• I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Trouble
  • Anxiety
  • Shy

• I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Personality
  • Look
  • Possible

• 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