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Hans Hofmann

"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."

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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."

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Hans Hofmann
"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."
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Hans Hofmann
"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
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"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."
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"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."
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"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."
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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"To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction."
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"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."
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"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world."
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"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."
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