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Quotes from Search for the Real and Other Essays — Hans Hofmann

1880–1966 Germany

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This two-way transformation proceeds from metaphysical perceptions, for metaphysics is the search for the essential nature of reality. And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality. Such is the magic act which takes place continuously in the development of a work of art. On this and only on this is creation based.

Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)

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