Art Quote by Hans Hofmann Download Open image “Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.” — Hans Hofmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Effects Frivolous Results Sophisticated Superficial
We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment. — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering, — Bran Ferren Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people. — Meridel Le Sueur 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
