Painting Quote by Hans Hofmann Download Open image “Through a painting, we can see the whole world.” — Hans Hofmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting Whole world World
The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent.… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be. — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world. — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. — Philip Guston 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
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think I'm a guy who can get into the paint, make plays and obviously distribute and make plays for other guys, too. — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
“Love them all," said Renoir. "That is the secret, young man. Love them all." The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. "Then,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share Image
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
