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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"We are capable of greatness."
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Personal Development
"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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Personal Development
"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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Personal Development
"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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Personal Development
"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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Personal Development
"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."
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Personal Development
"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing."
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Explore more quotes by 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."
Life
"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."
Nature
"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
"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world."
Art
"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
"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects."
Art
"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
Colors
"To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction."
Development
"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."
Art
"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."
Music
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