We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.
Hans HofmannYou must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.
Hans HofmannColor 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 HofmannThe whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic quality of color should likewise find expression in a work of art.
Hans Hofmann