"A thing in itself never expresses anything. It……" — Hans Hofmann
"A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea."
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39 Quotes by Hans Hofmann
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A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.
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To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
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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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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted…
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To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.
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Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.
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The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a…
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I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today,…
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I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.
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Our entire being is nourished by color.
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To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no…
— Gaston Bachelard
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
— Ansel Adams
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To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place…
— Jeff Buckley
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
— Albert Camus
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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation…
— Lily Yeh
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Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do…
— John F Walvoord
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he…
— Emile Durkheim
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
— Oscar Wilde
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There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic…
— Mel Gibson
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