Hans Hofmann's Quotes

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

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

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Hans Hofmann

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hofmann

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

Hans Hofmann