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title: "4 Plastic Quotes By Hans Hofmann"
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> [Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/depth-in-a-pictorial-plastic-sense-is-not-created-by-the-arrangement/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/hans-hofmann-11062_absolutes_depth-in-a-pictorial-plastic-sense-is-no_1377277.jpg)

> [To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/to-experience-visually-and-to-transform-our-visual-experience-into/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/871/hans-hofmann-11062_emotion_to-experience-visually-and-to-transform_2596579.jpg)

> [Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/color-is-a-plastic-means-of-creating-intervals-color-harmonics/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fe/hans-hofmann-11062_color_color-is-a-plastic-means-of-creating-int_2603301.jpg)

> [The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/the-plastic-artist-may-or-may-not-be-concerned-with-presenting-a/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/hans-hofmann-11062_appearance_the-plastic-artist-may-or-may-not-be-con_2872421.jpg)

## Other authors on Plastic

## More by Hans Hofmann

> [The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/the-impulse-of-nature-fused-through-the-personality-of-the-artist-by/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/the-width-of-a-line-may-present-the-idea-of-infinity-an-epigram-may/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/the-art-of-pictorial-creation-is-so-complicated-it-is-so-astronomical/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/the-general-misunderstanding-of-a-work-of-art-is-often-due-to-the/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/it-takes-intelligence-and-training-self-discipline-and-fine/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/when-the-impulses-which-stir-us-to-profound-emotion-are-integrated/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/a-thing-in-itself-never-expresses-anything-it-is-the-relation-between/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/genius-is-gifted-with-a-vitality-which-is-expended-in-the-enrichment/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/the-whole-world-as-we-experience-it-visually-comes-to-us-through-the/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/i-can-t-understand-how-anyone-is-able-to-paint-without-optimism/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/to-worship-the-product-and-ignore-its-development-leads-to/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/the-creative-process-lies-not-in-imitating-but-in-paralleling-nature/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/to-me-art-is-the-glorification-of-the-human-spirit/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/nature-s-purpose-in-relation-to-the-visual-arts-is-to-provide/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

> [A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/a-thought-functions-only-as-a-fragmentary-part-in-the-formulation-of/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

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