4 quotes by Hans Hofmann

“In nature, light creates color. In the picture, color creates light.” — Hans Hofmann

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“Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.” — Hans Hofmann

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

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“Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.” — Hans Hofmann

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