To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.Hans Hofmann
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.
Hans Hofmann
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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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.
Hans Hofmann
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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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.
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