It Is Not The Form That Dictates

The General Misunderstanding Of A Work Of Art Is Often Due To The Fact That The Key To Its Spiritual Content And Technical Means Is Missed. Unless The Observer Is Trained To A Certain Degree In The Artistic Idiom, He Is Apt To Search For Things Which Have Little To Do With The Aesthetic Content Of A Picture. He Is Likely To Look For Pure Representational Values When The Emphasis Is Really Upon Music-like Relationships.

A Work Based Only On A Line Concept Is Scarcely More Than A Illustration; It Fails To Achieve Pictorial Structure. Pictorial Structure Is Based On A Plane Concept. The Line Originates In The Meeting Of Two Planes ... We Can Lose Ourselves In A Multitude Of Lines, If Through Them We Lose Our Senses For The Planes.

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.

A Work Of Art Is A World In Itself Reflecting Senses And Emotions Of The Artist's World. Just As A Flower, By Virtue Of Its Existence As A Complete Organism Is Both Ornamental And Self-sufficient As To Color, Form, And Texture, So Art, Because Of Its Singular Existence Is More Than Mere Ornament.

People Say 'hofmann Has Different Styles'. I Have Not. I Have Different Moods; I Am Not Two Days The Same Man.