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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

#control #dance #expression #felt #free

We worked so hard we almost stopped enjoying it. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#enjoying #hard #stopped #worked

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#commercial success #guess #i #like #oh

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists. ↗

— Albert Hofmann

#know #latin #these #very

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cannot #effects #frivolous #result #sophisticated

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#creates #light #nature #picture

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. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#color #counterpoint #creating #differentiate #formal

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

#become #contingent #emotion #every #expression

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#carrier #expression #help #idea #inherent

Through a painting we can see the whole world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#see #through #whole #world