To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
Hans HofmannI can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
Hans HofmannArt 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 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 Hofmann