Audio Transcription:
Art must not imitate physical life
Art must have a life of its own—a spiritual life
A painter must create pictorial life . . .
which demands that he must be able to activate the picture-surface with the means at his disposal to create this life.

—Hans Hofmann, 1948

Audio Transcription:
Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light, and form in the rhythm of life.

—Hans Hofmann, 1948

Audio Transcript:
A plane is a fragment in the architecture of space. When a number of planes are opposed one to another, a spatial effect results. A plane functions in the same manner as the walls of a building. . . . Planes organized within a picture create the pictorial space of its composition.

—Hans Hofmann, 1948