The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing
Hans HofmannThe ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans HofmannPeople say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.
Hans Hofmann