“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

Quoted in: Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 147
Quote c. 1949, when Albers started his 'Homage to the Square' series of paintings

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German-American artist and educator 1888–1976

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