In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Interpretation
Light and color are interconnected in both nature and art, influencing each other profoundly.
This quote by Hans Hofmann highlights the intrinsic relationship between light and color in the realms of nature and artistic representation. In nature, light is a fundamental element that brings color to life, while in art, the use of color can shape and define the perception of light within a composition. This dynamic interplay emphasizes how both elements are essential for visual experience, whether in the natural world or in artistic creations.
In practice
During an art workshop, to illustrate the importance of perception in painting.
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.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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 don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.
I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this is very different to the way it was for me, which was that I wanted to understand photography and the world and myself.
You could say that my aim is βto recover the placeβ. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.
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