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. Hans Hofmann More Quotes by Hans Hofmann More Quotes From Hans Hofmann Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. Hans Hofmann personality expression art 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. Hans Hofmann painting light energy A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis. Hans Hofmann spiritual views art The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units. Hans Hofmann expression mean art And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality . Hans Hofmann self spiritual reality The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive. Hans Hofmann expression lying art What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. Hans Hofmann principles goes-on art The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means is missed. Unless the observer is trained to a certain degree in the artistic idiom, he is apt to search for things which have little to do with the aesthetic content of a picture. He is likely to look for pure representational values when the emphasis is really upon music-like relationships. Hans Hofmann spiritual mean art Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. Hans Hofmann nature creative mind 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. Hans Hofmann artist may reality 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. Hans Hofmann color depth law 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. Hans Hofmann documentation spirit art 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. Hans Hofmann artist expression spiritual The impressionistic method leads into a complete splitting and dissolution of all areas involved in the composition, and color is used to create an overall effect of light. The color is, through such a shading down from the highest light in the deepest shadows, sacrified an degraded to a (black-and-white) function. This leads to the destructions of the color as color. Hans Hofmann black-and-white color light Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. Hans Hofmann expression profound art It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws Hans Hofmann differences expression law I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Hans Hofmann optimism passion able To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy. Hans Hofmann faculty empathy emotion 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. Hans Hofmann expression profound art 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. Hans Hofmann optimism healing attitude
