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Quotes from The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists — Hans Hofmann

1880–1966 Germany

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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists (1962)

I 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.

The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists (1962)

Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this — that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.

The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists (1962)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hans Hofmann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.