In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of its own and an associated meaning in relation to something else - its essential value is relative. We speak of the mood we experience when looking at a landscape. This mood results from the relation of certain things rather than from their separate actualities. This is because objects do not in themselves possess the total effect they give when interrelated.

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

Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

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.