What did Hans Hofmann mean by: I can’t understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. - Hans Hofmann Copy
+ In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hans Hofmann, Color, Energy, Light, 0 - Hans Hofmann
+ Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hans Hofmann, Art, Expression, Personality, 0 - Hans Hofmann
+ The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hans Hofmann, Business, 0 - Hans Hofmann
+ To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hans Hofmann, Development, Reaction, Worship, 0 - Hans Hofmann
+ Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hans Hofmann, Creative, Mind, Nature, 0 - Hans Hofmann
+ A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hans Hofmann, Art, Emotion, 0 - Hans Hofmann
+ Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hans Hofmann, Art, Sophisticated, Superficial, 0 - Hans Hofmann
+ It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hans Hofmann, Color, Form, 0 - Hans Hofmann
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion. - Jean Fritz
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
When I’m carried away, isn’t it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth? - Jean Racine Playwright · France
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight! - Jean Racine Playwright · France