“ 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
“ The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann
“ The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Hans Hofmann
“ What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. 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 differenti… Hans Hofmann
