Through A Painting, We Can See The

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.

It Is Not The Form That Dictates The Color, But The Color That Brings Out The Form.

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.

Art Is Something Absolute, Something Positive, Which Gives Power Just As Food Gives Power. While Creative Science Is A Mental Food, Art Is The Satisfaction Of The Soul.

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