Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmannwas a German-born American abstract expressionist painter...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth21 March 1880
CountryGermany
space able would-be
It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.
color space light
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.
art expression profound
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.
age events spirit
We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.
discovery feelings genius
Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.
crafts painting reason
You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.
spiritual art views
A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.
art documentation spirit
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.
art reality magic
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.
spiritual artist expression
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.
art mean expression
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.
art expression personality
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
art able invisible
To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.
color together cogs
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.