"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light." ― Hans Hofmann Topic(s): Nature More From Hans Hofmann "Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects." "Art is magic… But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic." "Color is a plastic means of creating intervals… color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony." More In Nature "Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented."― Daisaku Ikeda "Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."― Francis Bacon "Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."― Ralph Waldo Emerson