"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."

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Source : "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 128, 1962.

Hans Hofmann

#Light Quotes #Energy Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I was a weirdo. I wasn't picked on or anything. And I wasn't smarter than the other kids; that's not why I didn't fit in. I've always had this weird anxiety. I hated recess. I didn't like field trips. Parties really stressed me out. And I had a very different sense of humour.”
“God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !”
“Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.”
“You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss!”
“Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.”

Source : Ouida (1889). “A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. "Deadly dash"”
“A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.”
“What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.”
“And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?”

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