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 HofmannArt 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 HofmannThrough a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans HofmannThe ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans HofmannThe whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
Hans Hofmann