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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

~Hans Hofmann

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Through a painting we can see the whole world.

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

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Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

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

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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.

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

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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: March 21st, 1880

Died: February 17th, 1966

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