The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
Interpretation
Color shapes our perception of the world around us.
In this quote, Hans Hofmann emphasizes the profound impact that color has on our experiences and perceptions. He suggests that our visual experiences are not just passive observations but are deeply influenced by the vibrancy and qualities of color, highlighting its mystical and essential role in understanding the world.
In practice
In an art class while discussing the importance of color theory.
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.
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.
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.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness.
There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
Never play a thing the same way twice.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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