Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmannwas a German-born American abstract expressionist painter...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth21 March 1880
CountryGermany
dispute generally giving nobody
Nobody would dispute that I'm giving him a centrality he doesn't generally have.
color
Our entire being is nourished by color.
color form
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
spiritual reality self
And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .
color world mystic
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
nature creative mind
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
world painting whole-world
Through a painting, we can see the whole world.
color together cogs
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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.
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.
ideas function
A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.
passion optimism able
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.
illustration two lines
A work based only on a line concept is scarcely more than a illustration; it fails to achieve pictorial structure. Pictorial structure is based on a plane concept. The line originates in the meeting of two planes ... we can lose ourselves in a multitude of lines, if through them we lose our senses for the planes.
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.