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Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.
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
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Hans Hofmann (1880-1966)
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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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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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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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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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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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To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
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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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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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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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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
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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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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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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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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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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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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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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.
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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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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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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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