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

— Albert Hofmann

#know #latin #these #very

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

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #emotions #itself #reflecting #senses

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

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

#art #astronomical #combination #complicated #concentration

Through a painting we can see the whole world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#see #through #whole #world

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

#abstract art #aesthetic #art #aware #become

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#ignore #leads #product #reaction #worship

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

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#connect #distinctly #grow #mature #more