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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.
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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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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To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
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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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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.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Our entire being is nourished by color.
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Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive space is dynamic space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.
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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 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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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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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.
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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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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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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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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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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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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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