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Hans Hofmann Quotes: The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.
         

The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.


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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.



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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

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Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.



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