Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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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
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.
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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.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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