To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy. Hans Hofmann More Quotes by Hans Hofmann More Quotes From Hans Hofmann The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann business inspirational mean In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. Hans Hofmann color light energy A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Hans Hofmann emotion world art Our entire being is nourished by color. Hans Hofmann color 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. Hans Hofmann rhythm-of-life color light It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form. Hans Hofmann form color To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art. Hans Hofmann invisible able art 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 creative giving art Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul. Hans Hofmann soul expression art People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man. Hans Hofmann men two people 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. Hans Hofmann spring reality art Painters must speak through paint, not through words. Hans Hofmann painter paint speak A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea. Hans Hofmann function giving ideas Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience. Hans Hofmann expression profound art Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. Hans Hofmann magic reality art 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. Hans Hofmann self spiritual art The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of its own and an associated meaning in relation to something else - its essential value is relative. We speak of the mood we experience when looking at a landscape. This mood results from the relation of certain things rather than from their separate actualities. This is because objects do not in themselves possess the total effect they give when interrelated. Hans Hofmann landscape giving mean Through a painting, we can see the whole world. Hans Hofmann painting whole world The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Hans Hofmann mystic color world There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations. Hans Hofmann civilization reality art
