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Painters Must Speak Through Paint, Not Through Words.

The Difference Between The Arts Arises Because Of The Difference In The Nature Of The Mediums Of Expression And The Emphasis Induced By The Nature Of Each Medium. Each Means Of Expression Has Its Own Order Of Being, Its Own Units.

The Impressionistic Method Leads Into A Complete Splitting And Dissolution Of All Areas Involved In The Composition, And Color Is Used To Create An Overall Effect Of Light. The Color Is, Through Such A Shading Down From The Highest Light In The Deepest Shadows, Sacrified An Degraded To A (black-and-white) Function. This Leads To The Destructions Of The Color As Color.

Art Is To Me The Glorification Of The Human Spirit, And As Such It Is The Cultural Documentation Of The Time In Which It Is Produced.

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