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.
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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.Hans Hofmann
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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