Florentijn Hofman Quotes

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.

I am an artist who works with Lego.

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

I love art. It is uplifting.

Children are funny.

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.

I love surrealism.

Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.

I'm just someone who likes making lots of things up and trying to be funny. That's about it.

We weren't rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don't have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over.

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.

In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence, out of this emptiness, arises love, compassion, and out of this silence a possibility for creativity. This silence, this love, this compassion, these are the qualities of meditation.

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

He smiled and tapped my nose. "Two thank-yous in as many days. I don't suppose I'll get to see any, uh, special gratitude?" I scoffed. "Nope. You'll just have to imagine it." He gave me a half-hug and released me. "Fair enough. But I have a good imagination.

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.