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Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. Of those three components only one, the medium, is material.

— Hans Hofmann Hans Hofmann (1963)

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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it — that is art.

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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

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