Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality . — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born,… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art.… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life -… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share
