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Hans Hofmann - From the Abstraction category:
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Art category:
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Art category:
Art is the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Artists category:
The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Colour category:
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Colour category:
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic quality of color should likewise find expression in a work of art. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Colour category:
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Complexity category:
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated – it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Creativity category:
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Emotion category:
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Expression category:
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Harmony category:
Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Ideas category:
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Light category:
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Magic category:
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Mediums category:
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Movement category:
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension-working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Nature category:
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Production category:
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Purpose category:
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Reality category:
The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Rules category:
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Simplicity category:
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Teaching category:
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Temperament category:
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Thought category:
A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Vision category:
To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art. (Hans Hofmann)
Hans Hofmann - From the Words category:
Painters must speak through paint, not through words. (Hans Hofmann)
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