Hans Hofmann – 3 Quotes

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3 Quotes by Hans Hofmann

 

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

– Hans Hofmann


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

– Hans Hofmann


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