The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Interpretation
Simplifying allows the important elements to become clearer while removing distractions.
This quote by Hans Hofmann emphasizes the importance of simplicity in communication and design. By removing unnecessary complexities, we allow the essential aspects to shine through, making it easier for people to understand and appreciate the core message or idea.
In practice
This quote can be used in a presentation about effective communication skills.
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.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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.
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
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