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Hans Hofmann
German
March 21, 1880
Artist
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann
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Through
Must
Words
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Hans Hofmann
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Art
Cannot
Result
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Hans Hofmann
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Nature
Light
Picture
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
Hans Hofmann
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Out
Form
Color
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Hans Hofmann
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Nature
Life
Being
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
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May
Means
Speak
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
Hans Hofmann
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Experience
World
Us
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
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Time
Our
Never
