All Hans Hofmann Quotes
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Hans Hofmann
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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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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
Hans Hofmann
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
Hans Hofmann
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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
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