Top 86 Hofmann Quotes
#1. The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.
Ralph Metzner
#3. My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#4. People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.
Hans Hofmann
#5. The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.
Hans Hofmann
#6. You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.
Hans Hofmann
#7. I believe cooking can be fun, healthy, easy and tasty! I hope you find some recipes in here that are some nice healthy alternatives and become part of your weekly flow.
Angelika Angie Hofmann
#8. You just have to remember that little person inside of you that wanted to take over the world; then, listen to them.
Chad Hofmann
#10. Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Hans Hofmann
#11. I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that's all.
Albert Hofmann
#12. Everyone has the potential to be great, because everyone has the potential to serve." Martin Luther King
Margaret A. Hofmann
#13. I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.
Albert Hofmann
#14. Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.
Albert Hofmann
#15. Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide.
Murad Wilfried Hofmann
#16. To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
Hans Hofmann
#17. What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.
Albert Hofmann
#18. Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation ... From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life all movement and rhythm time and light, color and mood in short, all reality in Form and Thought.
Hans Hofmann
#19. The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing
Hans Hofmann
#20. I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.
Hans Hofmann
#21. When life gives you lemons... chuck them at someone's head. You'll be surprised how good it feels.
Nicole Hofmann
#22. The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
Hans Hofmann
#23. Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
Hans Hofmann
#24. The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
#25. It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
Hans Hofmann
#26. It used to be that a novel would put you among people, tell you a story or stories, give you some sense of what it might be like to see a different cut-out and perspective of the world: as a schoolteacher, an adulteress, the wife of a member of Parliament, an officer, a cockroach.
Michael Hofmann
#27. J. D. Salinger, the greatly loved author who "had elected to silence himself. He had freedom of speech but what he had ended up wanting more than anything else, it seemed, was the freedom to be silent.
Michael Hofmann
#28. Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.
Albert Hofmann
#29. An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
Hans Hofmann
#30. For after all, a poster does more than simply
supply information on the goods it advertises;
it also reveals a society's state of mind
Armin Hofmann
#31. The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
Hans Hofmann
#32. A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Hans Hofmann
#33. The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.
Hans Hofmann
#34. 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
#35. Art is magic ... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
Hans Hofmann
#36. Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Hans Hofmann
#37. Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.
Hans Hofmann
#38. We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.
Hans Hofmann
#39. The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality.
Hans Hofmann
#40. Wrong and inappropriate use has caused LSD to become my problem child,
Albert Hofmann
#41. 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
#42. Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
Hans Hofmann
#43. It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.
Albert Hofmann
#44. One of the worst symptoms of HIV is secrecy...if you get HIV? You get secretive. Insular. Paranoid. Your life becomes a giant pretense so no one finds out you have this disease. You don't know what people will do for you because you are too afraid to tell them.
Regan Hofmann
#45. To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.
Hans Hofmann
#46. I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
August Wilhelm Von Hofmann
#47. They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.
Albert Hofmann
#48. And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .
Hans Hofmann
#49. When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
Albert Hofmann
#50. To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.
Hans Hofmann
#51. I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.
Albert Hofmann
#52. The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.
Hans Hofmann
#53. Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
Hans Hofmann
#54. From that day on I go to each door in turn and sing the three songs that I remember from school. Within a few days I'm overwhelmed how happy they appear to be when they hear or recognize me.
Corinne Hofmann
#55. LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.
Albert Hofmann
#56. Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann
#57. It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.
Hans Hofmann
#58. The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units.
Hans Hofmann
#59. 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.
Hans Hofmann
#60. I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
Albert Hofmann
#61. Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.
Hans Hofmann
#62. Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann
#63. I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.
Corinne Hofmann
#64. Anyone can do whatever they want in life, this is our world to play in.
Chad Hofmann
#65. To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
Hans Hofmann
#66. A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.
Hans Hofmann
#67. The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.
Hans Hofmann
#68. It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.
Albert Hofmann
#69. 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.
Hans Hofmann
#70. When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
Hans Hofmann
#71. Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!
Albert Hofmann
#72. Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.
Hans Hofmann
#73. It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
Hans Hofmann
#74. God only speaks to those who understand the language
Albert Hofmann
#75. There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
Hans Hofmann
#76. Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.
Hans Hofmann
#77. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.
Hans Hofmann
#78. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors,
Albert Hofmann
#79. Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
Hans Hofmann
#80. There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.
Armin Hofmann
#81. LSD wanted to tell me something ... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.
Albert Hofmann
#82. In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Hans Hofmann
#83. 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.
Hans Hofmann
#84. After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
Albert Hofmann
