'Excerpts from the Teaching of Hans Hofmann', p. 61
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“Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. Of those three components only one, the medium, is material.”
As quoted in Hans Hofmann (1963) by William Chapin Seitz, p. 15
1960s
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'Painting and Culture' p. 58
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'Search for the Real in the Visual Arts', p. 46
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Attributed to Rodin in: Southwestern Art Vol. 6 (1977). p. 20; Partly cited in: A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson, p. 7
1930s and later
'Painting and Culture' p. 58
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)
'Search for the Real in the Visual Arts', p. 40
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)
'Painting and Culture' p. 57
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)

1910 - 1915
Source: On the Spiritual in Art, 1911; as quoted in Schönberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter, by Klaus Kropfinger; edited by Konrad Boehmer; published by Routledge (imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informal company), 2003, p. 15

Source: 1950's, Interview by William Wright, Summer 1950, pp. 139-140
'Search for the Real in the Visual Arts', p. 54
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)