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.
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.
Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.
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