The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Interpretation
Simplifying allows the important elements to become clearer while removing distractions.
This quote by Hans Hofmann emphasizes the importance of simplicity in communication and design. By removing unnecessary complexities, we allow the essential aspects to shine through, making it easier for people to understand and appreciate the core message or idea.
In practice
This quote can be used in a presentation about effective communication skills.
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.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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.
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.
This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.
Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
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