Hans Hofmann Quotes

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• A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.
• To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
• The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
• In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
• A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.
• To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.
• Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.
• The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an…
• I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an…
• I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.
• Our entire being is nourished by color.
• To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.
• Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is…
• You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.
• People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.
• Through a painting, we can see the whole world.
• 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…
• 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…
• Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an…

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