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Hans Hofmann

"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."

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Donna Grant

"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it."

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Donna Grant

"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."

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Donna Grant

"Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields."

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Donna Grant

"I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment."

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Donna Grant

"Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that."

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Donna Grant

"The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'"

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Donna Grant

"Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter."

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Donna Grant

"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."

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Donna Grant

"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."

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Donna Grant

"Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused."

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Hans Hofmann
"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."

Colors

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Hans Hofmann
"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."

Work

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Hans Hofmann
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

Ability

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

Development

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Hans Hofmann
"Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world."

Nature

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Hans Hofmann
"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world."

Art

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Hans Hofmann
"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."

Experience

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Hans Hofmann
"Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind."

Life

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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."

Art

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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."

Art

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