Top 25 Quotes by Hans Hofmann of 62 - Page 3

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

Art, Spirit, Glorification

Helmut Friedel, Tina Dickey, Hans Hofmann, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München (1998). “Hans Hofmann: Wunder Des Rhythmus und Schönheit Des Raumes : [exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Im Lenbachaus in Munich, from 23 April to 29 June 1997, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, from 12 September to 2 November 1997 ]”, p.96, Hudson Hills

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

Hans Hofmann

Crafts, Painting, Reason

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

Hans Hofmann

Empathy, Emotion, Faculty

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

Hans Hofmann

Art, Sophisticated, Superficial

Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press

The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.

Hans Hofmann

Wall, Ideas, Space

Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.60, MIT Press

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

Hans Hofmann

Development, Worship, Reactions

Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press

Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.

Hans Hofmann

Light, Color, Differences

Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.68, MIT Press

It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.

Hans Hofmann

Space, Would Be, Able

"Can Painting be Taught" by Dorothy Seckler, Art News, No. 50, p. 64, March 1951.

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters must speak through paint not through words."

Hans Hofmann

Teacher, Desire, Students

It ls magazine, Winter-Spring 1959.

Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense of the Renaissance perspective, but on the contrary (and in absolute denial of this doctrine) by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull . Nor is depth created by tonal gradation (another doctrine of the academician which, at its culmination, degraded the use of color to a mere function of expressing dark and light).

Hans Hofmann

Dark, Color, Light

Lowery Stokes Sims, Hans Hofmann, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1999). “Hans Hofmann in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, Metropolitan Museum of Art