Language Quote by Hans Hofmann Download Open image “Painters must speak through paint, not through words.” — Hans Hofmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Paint Painter Painting Speak
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing--… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them.… — Charles Demuth Copy Share Image
In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't. — Derek Walcott 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
Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods. — James Elkins 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 put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
