Art Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Hans Hofmann

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

— Hans Hofmann

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

— Hans Hofmann

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

— Hans Hofmann

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

— 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…

— Hans Hofmann