Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmannwas a German-born American abstract expressionist painter...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth21 March 1880
CountryGermany
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.
art movement force
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.
art lying expression
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.
ideas giving function
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.