Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
From Hans Hofmann
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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.
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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