Hans Hofmann Quote

The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.


As quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America (1983) by W.C, Seitz, p. 88


The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more...

The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more...

The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more...

The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more...