When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

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