Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Read full biography of Hans Hofmann →
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
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... →
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... →
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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... →
Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.