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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.
Hans Hofmann
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Hans Hofmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1880
Born: January 1
Died: 1966
Died: January 1
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Hans Georg Albert Hofmann
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Hans Hofmann (1880-1966)
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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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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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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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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 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.
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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Our entire being is nourished by color.
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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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