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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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Hans Hofmann
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
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.
Hans Hofmann
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
Hans Hofmann
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.
Hans Hofmann
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.
Hans Hofmann
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Accordance,
Aim,
Create,
Deepest,
Emanate,
Experience,
Insight,
Into,
Life,
Light,
Luminous,
Mystic,
Nature,
Open,
Painting,
Pulsating,
Surfaces
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Accordance,
Aim,
Create,
Emanate,
Experience,
Insight,
Into,
Life,
Luminous,
light,
Mystic,
Nature,
Open,
Painting,
Pulsating
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