In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
Josef Albers

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
Josef Albers

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
Josef Albers

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
Josef Albers

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Josef Albers

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef Albers

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher

All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Ambrose Bierce

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Denis Waitley

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
Gloria Steinem

The art is long, life is short.
Hippocrates