Hans Hofmann

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

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

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

“A picture should be a revelation of an inner world.”

“My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a spiritual force.”

“To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.”

“The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.”

“Painting is a matter of conscience.”

“Every profound artistic expression is a product of a conscious and intuitive process.”

“Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit.”

“Space is alive; it's not a dead vacuum.”

“The artist's problem is not to be decorative, but to be expressive.”

“Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another, but by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull.”

“Creation is the new discovery of the given.”

“I bring the landscape home in my head... I try to distill it.”