“As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, 'Painters must speak through paint — not through words.”

—  Hans Hofmann

As quoted in It ls., No. 3 (Winter-Spring 1959)
1950s

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