Hans Hofmann

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

— Hans Hofmann

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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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

— 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. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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Through a painting we can see the whole world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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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

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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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