It isn't necessary to make ...

It isn\'t necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.
It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.
 Hans Hofmann

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
 Hans Hofmann
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
 Hans Hofmann
To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.
 Hans Hofmann
Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense of the Renaissance perspective, but on the contrary (and in absolute denial of this doctrine) by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull . Nor is depth created by tonal gradation (another doctrine of the academician which, at its culmination, degraded the use of color to a mere function of expressing dark and light).
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Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.
 Hans Hofmann