75 Quotes by Hans Hofmann

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

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

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

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

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 experience of life and nature.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

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 super-human concentration to explain the final realization