The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic quality of color should likewise find expression in a work of art.

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

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

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

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.