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

~Hans Hofmann

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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.

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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

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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.

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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: March 21st, 1880

Died: February 17th, 1966

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