“My paintings are always images of my whole psychic makeup. You cannot deny yourself. You ask, am I painting myself? I'd been a swindler if I did otherwise. I'd be denying my existence as an artist. I've been also asked, what do you want to convey? And I say, nothing but my own nature... I am nothing but an optimist.”

— Hans Hofmann

1960s
Source: Hofmann, in Ashton, (1960's) Twetieth Century Artists on Art, 218

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