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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
Tags: special, color, harmony, music

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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
— Hans Hofmann
Tags: us, color, world, experience
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.
— Hans Hofmann
Tags: who, spiritual, world, nature
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
— Hans Hofmann
Tags: same, expression, difference, work
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.
— Hans Hofmann
Tags: experience, light, nature, life
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.
— Hans Hofmann
Tags: spirit, time, me, art
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