Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Read full biography of Hans Hofmann →
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal... →
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a... →
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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... →
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.
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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... →
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... →
Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.