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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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a mans name live for thousands of years. – Denis Diderot

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I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. – Marshall McLuhan

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The idea is, if I cant heal from my art, then how can you heal? – Maynard James Keenan

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