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He insisted that only be concentrating on the small, practical things in the studio, by attending to the nitty-gritty, to the step by step construction of a painting or sculpture - would artists ultimately discover the big truths, the grand ideas.

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— Hans Hofmann   (1880 - 1966)

a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstract Expressionism