People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.
Our entire being is nourished by color. - Hans Hofmann
Our entire being is nourished by color.
- Hans Hofmann
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. - Hans Hofmann
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living… - Hans Hofmann
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living…
Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynami… - Hans Hofmann
Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynami…
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy. - Hans Hofmann
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form. - Hans Hofmann
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
Painters must speak through paint, not through words. - Hans Hofmann
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit. - Hans Hofmann
To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. - Hans Hofmann
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
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