Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstract Expressionism. Born and educated near Munich, he was active in the...
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.