I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

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

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.