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

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea

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

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. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

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