top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Art quotes
"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Music gives life to the soul."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Music gives strength to the soul."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."
Author Name
Personal Development
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
"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
"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
"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
"Painters must speak through paint, not through words."
Art
"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."
Art
"Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist."
Art
"Through a painting we can see the whole world."
Painting
bottom of page