German - Artist | March 21, 1880 - February 17, 1966
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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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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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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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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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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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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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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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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