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

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.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

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

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

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