Able Quote by Hans Hofmann Download Open image “I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.” — Hans Hofmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Hope I can Learning Optimism Paint Painting Passion
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… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I… — Ellie Kemper Copy Share Image
You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas. — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it. — Roger de Grey 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
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
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What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
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