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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

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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 Hofmann (1880-1966)
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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 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.
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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.
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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
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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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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
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Our entire being is nourished by color.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.
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