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.
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.
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.
expression order ideas
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
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.