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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

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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. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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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. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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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. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. ↗

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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