"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 "The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability."― Thomas Huxley "I’m an incurable optimist and a go-getter – it’s in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous."― Demi Moore "All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."― Sophocles