Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.