Josef Albers Quotes

In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

Josef Albers

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Men
  • Black
  • Fashion

• Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Color

• The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Color
  • End
  • Race

• As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Character
  • Career
  • Myself

• Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Color
  • Genius
  • Rainbow

• Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Color
  • Say
  • Yellow

• Embrace the color of your skin and your own beauty.

  

  Yuna
  • Color
  • Beauty
  • Skin

• I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin….

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• You can hate a man for many reasons, his color isn't one of them.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Hate
  • Color

• I've always considered myself a person of color.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Color

• The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin.

  

  Lavrenti Lopes
  • People
  • May
  • Quality

• As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

  

  Lesli Linka Glatter
  • People
  • Women
  • Simple

• I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

  

  Alvin Ailey
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Art

• I think people just don't respect women's bodies in general, the bodies of women of color in general.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • People
  • Women
  • Respect

• I've always thought it's the qualities of a person that matter. Not their breed, their shape, their color, their sexual preference, age... It's the qualities of their character.

  

  Janet McTeer
  • Character
  • Age
  • Color

• There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Different
  • Important
  • Perfect

• We get a lot of calls to the Hannibal/Quincy exchange. It seems like there are a lot of accidents there, especially for traffic leaving Hannibal and going north to Quincy.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Leaving
  • Exchange
  • Hannibal

• To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • May
  • Serious
  • End

• I think people who don't work don't really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than anything, it hurts them. When you're born rich, people just associate you with what you've been given, but the truth is every individual feels better when you create something on your own. Everyone takes pride in the work they do.

  

  Jamie Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Truth

• The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writer

• In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

  

  Josef Albers
  • Color
  • Recognize
  • Deceives