Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. — 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, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 must become… — 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 become art.… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. — 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 expression, thus… — 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 Life -… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
