Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
More Quotes from 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.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.
Hans Hofmann
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Hans Hofmann
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
Hans Hofmann
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
Hans Hofmann
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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