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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Hans Hofmann

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Hans Hofmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1880
Born: January 1
Died: 1966
Died: January 1
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Weißenburg/Bayern
Hans Georg Albert Hofmann
Johann Georg Albert Hofmann
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Hans Hoffman
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Hans Hofmann (1880-1966)
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.
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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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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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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.
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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
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To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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