Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I al… - Hans Hofmann

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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this — that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.

Hans Hofmann

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Hans Hofmann (21 March 1880 – 17 February 1966) was one of the older abstract expressionist painters working in New York. Hofmann originally came from Germany where he experienced the new art and so he connected European with modern American abstract art. He had strong influence as an art-teacher and writer on the younger American abstract artists after 1940.

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Alternative Names: Hans Georg Albert Hofmann • Johann Georg Albert Hofmann • Johann Hofmann • Hans Hoffman • Hofmann

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At the time of making a picture, I want not to know what I am doing.; a picture should me made with feeling, not with knowing.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Quote in: 'Hans Hofmann', (1986) by Cynthia Goodman, p. 103

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