"You must break all the rules of painting,……" — Hans Hofmann
"You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so."
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39 Quotes by Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann has 39 quotes on this site.
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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