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.
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
The room is the beginning of architecture.
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.
Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.
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