“In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.”
— Hans Hofmann
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Category: nature
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Color is a plastic means of creating
“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.”
— Hans Hofmann
Author: Hans Hofmann
Category: music
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Art is magic… But how is it
“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
Author: Hans Hofmann
Category: art
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Art is magic… But how is it
“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
Author: Hans Hofmann
Category: truth
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or
“Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.”
— Hans Hofmann
Author: Hans Hofmann
Category: art
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
— Hans Hofmann
Author: Hans Hofmann
Category: communication
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