Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Hans Hofmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1880
Born: January 1
Died: 1966
Died: January 1
Architect
Artist
Drawer
Painter
Weißenburg/Bayern
Hans Georg Albert Hofmann
Johann Georg Albert Hofmann
Johann Hofmann
Hans Hoffman
Hans. Hofmann
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966)
Hofmann
Inspirational
Necessary
Programmers
Past
Design
Simplify
May
Environment
Eliminate
Usability
Mean
Ability
Unnecessary
Minimalist
Simple
Programming
Minimalism
Means
Painter
Concise
Speak
Simplicity
Simplification
Business
Tiny
Eliminating
More quotes by Hans Hofmann
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.
Hans Hofmann
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
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Hans Hofmann
Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.
Hans Hofmann
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.
Hans Hofmann
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
Hans Hofmann
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
Hans Hofmann
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Hans Hofmann
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
Hans Hofmann
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Hans Hofmann
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
Hans Hofmann
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
The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing
Hans Hofmann
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
Hans Hofmann
The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality.
Hans Hofmann
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.
Hans Hofmann
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete organism is both ornamental and self-sufficient as to color, form, and texture, so art, because of its singular existence is more than mere ornament.
Hans Hofmann
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.
Hans Hofmann
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic quality of color should likewise find expression in a work of art.
Hans Hofmann