"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects." ― Hans Hofmann Topic(s): Art More From Hans Hofmann "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." "In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light." "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 Art "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."― Frank Zappa "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."― Voltaire "All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."― John Ruskin