In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Interpretation
Light and color are interconnected in both nature and art, influencing each other profoundly.
This quote by Hans Hofmann highlights the intrinsic relationship between light and color in the realms of nature and artistic representation. In nature, light is a fundamental element that brings color to life, while in art, the use of color can shape and define the perception of light within a composition. This dynamic interplay emphasizes how both elements are essential for visual experience, whether in the natural world or in artistic creations.
In practice
During an art workshop, to illustrate the importance of perception in painting.
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.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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.
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
From the shadow of domes in the city of domes,_x000D_ A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room_x000D_ And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up_x000D_ From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all_x000D_ There was to it.
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
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