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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. — Hans Hofmann

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy. — Hans Hofmann

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. — Hans Hofmann

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. — Hans Hofmann

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. — Hans Hofmann

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling. — Hans Hofmann

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man. — Hans Hofmann

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art. — Hans Hofmann

Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light. — Hans Hofmann

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

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality . — Hans Hofmann

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. — Hans Hofmann

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. — Hans Hofmann

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. — Hans Hofmann

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form. — Hans Hofmann

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

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so. — Hans Hofmann

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me. — Sheri S. Tepper

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

You ever try to go a day without judgment? — Max Cannon

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. — Hans Hofmann

Our entire being is nourished by color. — Hans Hofmann

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. — Hans Hofmann

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me. — Horace

You mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly ... — John Geddes

Painters must speak through paint, not through words. — Hans Hofmann

Through a painting we can see the whole world. — Hans Hofmann

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. — Hans Hofmann

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit. — Hans Hofmann

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) — Anonymous

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. — Hans Hofmann

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. — Hans Hofmann

A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea. — Hans Hofmann