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

#mood #style #art

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#creates #light #nature #picture

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#eliminate #may #means #necessary #simplify

Painters must speak through paint, not through words. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#paint #painters #speak #through #words

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

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #emotions #itself #reflecting #senses

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

#become #contingent #emotion #every #expression

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#carrier #expression #help #idea #inherent

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

#cultural #documentation #glorification #human #human spirit

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#constant #creative #creative mind #inexhaustible #life

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cannot #effects #frivolous #result #sophisticated