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Houston has had its storm disasters before. In 2001, the enormous amount of rain dropped in the shortest time by tropical storm Alison caused $8 million in damages for the Houston Symphony alone -- which lost its music library and many musical instruments.


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HANS JONAS Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships,...
HANS HOFMANN When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, ev...
HANS HOFMANN Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
HANS HOFMANN An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of ...
HANS HOFMANN Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformat...
HANS HOFMANN It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
HANS HOFMANN Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
HANS HOFMANN Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
HANS HOFMANN Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
HANS HOFMANN Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of ...
HANS HOFMANN Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
HANS HOFMANN In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
HANS HOFMANN What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time tha...
HANS HOFMANN The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
HANS HOFMANN Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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