Author: Hans Hofmann

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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.

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

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

- Hans Hofmann

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

- Hans Hofmann

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

- Hans Hofmann

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

- Hans Hofmann

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

- Hans Hofmann

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.

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

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

- Hans Hofmann

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

- Hans Hofmann

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