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.
More Quotes by Hans Hofmann
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
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.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.