Art Quote by Hans Hofmann

“There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.” quote by Hans Hofmann — Download Open image

“There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.”

Hans Hofmann

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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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