Art Quote by Hans Hofmann

“Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.” quote by Hans Hofmann — Download Open image

“Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.”

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The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm…

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The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture…

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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take…

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The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means is missed. Unless the observer is trained to a certain degree in the artistic idiom, he is apt to search for things which have little to do with the aesthetic content of a picture. He is…

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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…

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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art.…

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A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A…

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

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

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

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

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The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus…

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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