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Hans Hofmann Quotes

German - Artist | March 21, 1880 - February 17, 1966

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

Nature Light Color Picture Creates

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Communication Speak Ability Simplify

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Art Painting World See Through

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Together Colors Puzzle Wheel Pieces

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.

Art Possibilities Complicated Explain

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Work Art World Artist Emotions

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

Experience World Color Through Us

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

Art Personality Artist Expression

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

Music Color Harmony Creating Now

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

Work Difference Same Abstract Laws

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.

Time Art Aesthetic Principles Become

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.

Nature Spiritual World Artist Three

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