“It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.”

— Hans Hofmann

As quoted in Can Painting be Taught by Dorothy Seckler, Art News No. 50 (March 1951), p. 64
1950s

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American artist 1880–1966

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