Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this — that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.


As quoted in The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists (1962) by Katharine Kuh, p. 118

Hans Hofmann Quotes

Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this — that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art....

Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this — that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art....

Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this — that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art....

Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this — that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art....