Hans Hofmann Quotes

Hans Hofmann
German Artist
Born: Mar 21, 1880
Died: Feb 17, 1966
Art Become Color Creation Every Nature
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. Hans Hofmann
Nature Light Picture Color Creates
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Hans Hofmann
Work Art Emotions World Itself Reflecting Artist Senses
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. Hans Hofmann
Art Personality Every Temperament Artist Rooted Expression Fundamentally
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. Hans Hofmann
Nature Spiritual World Three First Creation Medium Laws Through Absolutely Factors Contact Materials His Dominated Artist Different Which Us Creates Who Works Expression Inner Second Third Inner World
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. Hans Hofmann
Art Complicated Creation Final Relation Astronomical Possibilities Would Take Combination Pictorial Concentration Explain Realization Act
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. Hans Hofmann
Together Must Colors Puzzle Pieces Fit Wheel
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. Hans Hofmann
Worship Development Leads Reaction Product Ignore
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. Hans Hofmann
Life Nature Experience Light Painting Pulsating Aim Emanate Insight Mystic Open Accordance Create Luminous Deepest
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. Hans Hofmann
Work Every Visual No Difference Follows Laws Abstract Makes Same Difference Whether Naturalistic Expression Fundamental Fundamental Laws
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. Hans Hofmann
Life Nature Creative Mind Constant Inexhaustible Stimulus Being Creative Mind
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. Hans Hofmann
Art Soul Become Every Medium Interview Emotion Mastery Contingent Integrated Stir May Impulses Which Us Expression Profound

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