Best quotes by Hans Hofmann on Art

Checkout quotes by Hans Hofmann on Art

  • Through a painting we can see the whole world.
    - Hans Hofmann
  • A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
    - Hans Hofmann
  • Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
    - Hans Hofmann
  • What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
    - Hans Hofmann
  • 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
  • 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
  • Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
    - Hans Hofmann
  • 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.
    - Hans Hofmann
  • The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
    - Hans Hofmann