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Hans Hofmann Quotes: Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
         

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.


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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.

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