It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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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
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
Hans Hofmann
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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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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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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