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Quote by Hans Hofmann
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial ef

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. – Hans Hofmann

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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

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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. – Franz Liszt

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The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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His soul palpitating with love of art… – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919 [referring to Dirk Stroeve &mda

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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. – H. L. Mencken

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