Hans Hofmann

Artist

1880-03-21

Books by Hans Hofmann

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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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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.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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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.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.
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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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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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