6 Quotes & Sayings By Hans Hofmann

Hans Hofmann is a leading American psychologist who has spent much of his career studying the human mind and its functions. He was a professor at Harvard University, where he was also director of their Child Study Center for more than forty years. His research interests include the study of motivation, personality, and the relationship between personality and social behavior.

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Hans Hofmann
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Through a painting we can see the whole world. 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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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced. Hans Hofmann