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Hans Hofmann

"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."

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"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."

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A.E. Samaan

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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A.E. Samaan

"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

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A.E. Samaan

"If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it."

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A.E. Samaan

"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."

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A.E. Samaan

"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

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A.E. Samaan

"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

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A.E. Samaan

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

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A.E. Samaan

"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."

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A.E. Samaan

"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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Hans Hofmann
"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."

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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."

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

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

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Hans Hofmann
"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."

Nature

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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."

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Hans Hofmann
"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony."

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Hans Hofmann
"Painters must speak through paint, not through words."

Art

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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."

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Hans Hofmann
"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects."

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